Monday's News & Ideas - 4/8/2023
- Vatican document on ‘gender theory’
- Peacemakers struggle in Gaza
- Cecil ‘Chip’ Murray dies
- Indiana injunction on abortion ban
- 1877 stained-glass window
- Guide to the solar eclipse
Gender-affirming surgery threatens ‘unique dignity’ of a person, Vatican says
CNN: The Vatican has issued a strong warning against “gender theory” and said that any gender-affirming surgery risks threatening “the unique dignity” of a person, in a new document signed off and approved by Pope Francis.
Fractured are the peacemakers*
Christianity Today: A Christian reconciliation group in Israel and Palestine warned that war would come. Now the war threatens their relevance.
Cecil L. ‘Chip’ Murray, influential pastor and civil rights leader in Los Angeles, dies
Associated Press: The Rev. Dr. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, an influential pastor and civil rights leader who used his tenure at one of Los Angeles’ oldest churches to uplift the predominantly Black neighborhoods of South Los Angeles following one of the country’s worst race riots, has died. He was 94.
Indiana appeals court upholds injunction on abortion ban, citing religious liberty
Religion News Service: The ruling was another win for those who say their religious beliefs direct them to have abortions prohibited by the ban.
In 1877, a stained-glass window depicted Jesus as Black for the first time − a scholar of visual images unpacks its history and significance
The Conversation: Now in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the window was made by the studio of Henry Sharp, a prominent 19th-century American stained-glassmaker who was popular with Episcopal congregations.
The Spark
A guide to the total solar eclipse
Eclipses* dazzled the ancient world. Now that we understand them better, they may be even more miraculous, The New Yorker says.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
