Monday's News & Ideas - 8/5/2024
- Evangelicals rebranding
- VBS adapts
- Gen Z YouTuber’s religious content
- Black Christian leaders for Kamala
- Battle over Muslim-friendly community
- Increase in gun ownership
A new movement aims to remake evangelicals’ relationship to politics*
The Washington Post: Fifty years after the rise of the religious right, some evangelicals want to rebrand and create a public presence that adheres to faith, not a party or person.
Not your parents’ VBS: How vacation Bible schools are changing to meet new needs
NPR: Vacation Bible schools are adapting to changing dynamics of family life and religious participation.
Meet Gen Z’s proselytizing Presbyterian reformer
Religion News Service: Richard Ackerman, a 21-year-old Presbyterian convert and conservative activist in the church, is the contemporary televangelist Zoomers can’t stop watching.
Black Christian leaders find hope with Kamala Harris*
Christianity Today: The vice president’s faith and commitment to issues stirs enthusiasm among the traditionally Democratic voting bloc.
A battle over a farm, a mosque and the moral high ground*
The New York Times: A proposed “Muslim-friendly” community near Minneapolis was called segregationist. The backlash was called Islamophobic. Who gets to define inclusion?
The Spark
What happens when everyone decides they need a gun?
We are living through an inflection point in America’s relationship with guns. There may be no going back, Vox says.
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