Monday's News & Ideas - 4/22/2024
- Christians and Earth Day
- Passover's radical message
- Mississippi seminary defies odds
- Religion and the abortion rights fight
- Richard Dawkins on Islam
- The uses of nostalgia
How should Christians respond to Earth Day?
The Guardian: I believe nature is one of the most powerful tools we have in worship and evangelism, writes Paul Douglas.
Passover’s radical message is more vital than ever*
New York Times: It is critical to remember the Exodus precisely at moments of horror and pain because it is the ultimate reminder that the present moment need not be the final stage of history, writes Rabbi Shai Held.
How a small evangelical seminary in Mississippi is defying the odds
Daily Journal: There was a time when Wesley Biblical Seminary in Ridgeland, Mississippi, talked about closing. Now, the school has nearly as many current students enrolled as alums.
How religious freedom could help liberals win the abortion rights war
TNR: The right has successfully wielded the idea of sincere religious beliefs as a legal cudgel. Should the left be using it to further its own ends?
Richard Dawkins takes a step beyond the ‘God Delusion’
The Dispatch: As a Muslim, I also found Dawkins’ comment on Islam biased and ill-informed. But I would still welcome his shy appreciation of religion — any religion, even if it is not mine — and see it as his first step toward recovering from his own delusions about the “God delusion,” writes Mustafa Akyol.
The Spark
You can’t go home again: The uses of nostalgia
When we give in to nostalgia, we do not simply remember the past. We distort it, idealizing and whitewashing whatever lost era we wistfully recall, The Hedgehog Review says.
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