Monday's News & Ideas - 8/23/2021
- Afghanistan’s refugees
- UVA disenrolls students
- Jesse Jackson hospitalized
- Black church & queer members
- The last Samaritans
- Amusement parks
As vulnerable Afghans flee Kabul, US faith groups prepare to aid them
Religion News Service: Faith-based refugee resettlement groups are mobilizing to help Afghans as they arrive — and from afar.
The Conversation: Where do Afghanistan’s refugees go?
University of Virginia disenrolls 238 students for not complying with university’s vaccine mandate
CNN: UVA requires “all students who live, learn, or work in person at the university” to be fully vaccinated for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year, according to current university Covid-19 policies.
Reverend Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, hospitalized with COVID-19
CBS News: The Reverend Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, have both been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement released Saturday by Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition.
The future of the Black church includes its ability to reckon with how it has treated its queer members*
The Washington Post: Ashon Crawley’s parents traveled yearly to Memphis for the annual convention of the Church of God in Christ. They purchased videocassettes of church services and concerts, videos that featured sermons and songs that included many men, flamboyant and free, in the choir. But year after year, more and more of them disappeared.
The world’s last Samaritans, straddling the Israeli-Palestinian divide*
The New York Times: Up a mountain in the West Bank, several hundred villagers practice an ancient Israelite religion while maintaining an ambiguous national identity.
The Spark
The story of amusement parks is the story of America, with all of its sparkle and chipped paint.
There are about 475 amusement parks and theme parks in the US today, Vox says.
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