Monday's News & Ideas - 9/9/2024
- Russell Nelson turns 100
- Black power movement & churches
- Interview with Terry Mattingly
- Pauli Murray Center opens
- Celeb pastor arrested in Philippines
- Hospice care industry
The Mormon church’s president, already the oldest in the faith’s history, is turning 100
The Associated Press: In 2018, he became the church’s 17th president at 93, making him the second oldest at the time to ever assume the role.
The Associated Press: A look at some of the oldest religious leaders in the world
Black church leaders brought religion to politics in the ‘60s – but it was dramatically different from today’s white Christian nationalism
The Conversation: Assertion of Black power was not in any way a threat to democracy – unlike today’s white Christian nationalists’ demands for taking the reins of power.
A conversation with one of the most prolific religion journalists in America, Terry Mattingly
Deseret News: “I consider religion to be the worst covered subject in the entire American press” was the statement that launched Terry Mattingly’s career. Now, he admits to grieving what journalism has become.
Center honoring trailblazing lawyer, civil rights activist and priest opens in Durham
Religion News Service: Known as the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, the refurbished two-story clapboard home will further the kind of progressive social causes Murray, who died in 1985, championed.
Celebrity ‘son of God’ pastor surrenders in Philippines after two-week manhunt
The Guardian: Apollo Quiboloy, who is also wanted in US on child trafficking charges, surrenders to police after ultimatum.
The Spark
Endgame: How the visionary hospice movement became a for-profit hustle
Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation, ProPublica says.
