Monday's News & Ideas - 5/16/2022
- California church attack
- Grove City CRT report
- Religion older than republic
- NZ presbyterian church land sales
- Palestinian journalist’s funeral
- Black music timeline
Parishioners subdue gunman in fatal California church attack
Associated Press: A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church, killing one person and wounding five senior citizens before a pastor hit the gunman on the head with a chair and parishioners tied him up with electrical cords.
Christianity Today: Elderly Taiwanese church in California attacked by shooter
Grove City board accepts full CRT report, says college promoted CRT
Religion News Service: The conservative Christian college has been at the center of a politicized clash over critical race theory since November.
Roe draft is a reminder that religion’s role in politics is older than the republic
NPR: While there are religious and non-religious people on both sides of the argument, the loudest voices are often those of religious traditionalists on one side and contemporary secularists on the other.
New Zealand’s presbyterian church will offer future land sales to Māori iwi first
The Guardian: New Zealand’s presbyterian church will offer any future land sales to Māori iwi first, as the institution reckons with its role in colonization and land confiscations in Aotearoa.
Church leaders condemn attack during funeral of slain Palestinian journalist
Crux: Jerusalem’s Christian churches came together to condemn the scenes of Israeli police beating mourners during the funeral of a Palestinian-American journalist who was shot and killed in the field, allegedly by Israel Defense Forces (IDF). They called the police violence an attack on religious freedom.
The Spark
The scholars who charted Black music’s timeline
Tony Bolden explores the spiritual principles that inform the foundation of Afrofuturist music, JSTOR Daily says.
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