Monday's News & Ideas - 9/27/2021

Gen Z is keeping the faith. Just don’t expect to see them at worship.
Religion News Service: Young people’s trust in religious institutions is low, but trust in relationships with religious people is still extremely high.

Albert Raboteau, expert on African American religious history, dead at 78
Religion News Service: The scholar ‘was the Godfather of Afro-American Religious Studies & the North Star of deep Christian political sensibilities!’ said colleague Cornel West.

Taliban official says strict punishment and executions will return
Associated Press: One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.

The messy post-Roe legal future awaiting America*
The Atlantic: There’s no clean end to this story.

Mike Flanagan swings for the heavens
The Ringer: Combining horror with profound questions about spirituality, ‘Midnight Mass’ is one of the best shows of the year

The Spark

The secrets of the world’s greatest freediver
With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver,* is reaching improbable depths — and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports, GQ says.

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