Monday's News & Ideas - 6/6/2022
- Nigerian church attacked
- Seminaries shedding campuses
- Reaction to Catholic church closures
- White evangelicals & LGBTQ people
- Andy Stanley on evangelicals
- Trash is his muse
Over 50 feared dead in Nigeria church attack, officials say
Associated Press: Gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday, leaving dozens feared dead, state lawmakers said.
As religious landscape shifts, reshaped seminaries shed their campuses
Religion News Service: ‘The seminary is not a building, and the work we do is not confined to these walls,’ said one seminary president.
Catholic church closures spread in the Northeast and Midwest. Not all are upset
NPR: Catholic churches are closing and merging in response to dropping participation and giving. It's a trend exacerbated and accelerated by COVID-19 and will affect U.S. worship life for years to come.
80 percent of white evangelicals say they don’t HAVE LGBTQ friends
Sojourners: The Public Religion Research Institute released a new study on June 2, highlighting how sexual orientation and gender identity correlate with politics, race, wealth, and religion.
Public Religion Research Institute: The role and importance of sexual orientation and gender identity in heterosexual and LGBTQ Americans’ lives
The evangelical church faces a ‘state of emergency’ over the pandemic and politics, Andy Stanley says
CNN: The evangelical subculture is filled with militaristic rhetoric that depicts conservative Christians trying to “take back America” for God from the secular forces of evil.
The Spark
Trash is his muse: Meet the Sanitation Department’s resident artist
Sto Len focuses much of his work on environmental issues* in New York City, The New York Times says.
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