Monday's News & Ideas - 5/23/2022
- Report: SBC’s inaction on abuse
- American religion & business
- Pelosi barred from communion
- Roberto Miranda dies
- TV presenter’s memoir
- Global energy inequity
Southern Baptists refused to act on abuse, despite secret list of pastors
Christianity Today: SBC Executive Committee staff saw advocates’ cries for help as a distraction from evangelism and a legal liability, stonewalling their reports and resisting calls for reform.
Most Americans pray for their coworkers. But the company? Not so much
Deseret News: A new survey report from Deseret News and The Marist Poll focuses on the relationship between religion and business.
San Francisco archbishop bans communion for Nancy Pelosi over her abortion stance
HuffPost: Salvatore Cordileone’s stance is a split from Pope Francis, who has said that Communion should not be politicized.
Roberto Miranda, pastor of Lion of Judah, prominent Boston church, has died
Religion News Service: A Harvard-educated pastor who grew a small congregation to one of the most influential evangelical congregations in Boston has died.
Australian TV presenter Tom Tilley grew up in a strict Pentecostal church. This is how he left the religious community that was his whole life
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: As Tilley recounts in his memoir “Speaking in Tongues,” his relationship with the church began to change during his teenage years when its rules became more onerous.
The Spark
The problem of global energy inequity, explained by American refrigerators
The average fridge in the US consumes more electricity in a year than an average person in dozens of countries, Vox says.
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