Monday's News & Ideas - 8/19/2024
- Evangelicals rally for Harris
- Religious composition of migrants
- Resisting Project 2025
- Psychedelics leading to God?
- Starvation cult trial
- Overtourism
Christians, evangelicals rally for Kamala Harris ahead of DNC
Religion News Service: “Voting Kamala … (is) a vote against another four years of faith leaders justifying the actions of a man who destroys the message Jesus came to spread,” said Jerushah Duford, granddaughter of the Rev. Billy Graham.
The religious composition of the world’s migrants
Pew Research Center: Christians are the largest migrant group, but Jews are most likely to have migrated.
How a movement to resist Christian nationalism took on Project 2025
Religion News Service: Project 2025 was the perfect test of this emerging movement’s capacity to see Christian nationalism, name it and fight it. And they did.
People are trying magic mushrooms for depression — and accidentally meeting God
Rolling Stone: The medicalization movement is faltering. Maybe that’s because psychedelics have been spiritual tools all along.
Survivors of doomsday starvation cult testify against pastor and 93 associates*
The New York Times: An evangelical pastor in Kenya ordered his flock to shun education and medicine and starve their children to death in order to meet Jesus, witnesses in a manslaughter trial said.
The Spark
Too many people, not enough management: A look at the chaos of ‘overtourism’ in the summer of 2024
Overtourism generally describes the tipping point at which visitors and their cash stop benefitting residents and instead cause harm by degrading historic sites, overwhelming infrastructure and making life markedly more difficult for those who live there, The Associated Press says.
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