Thursday's News & Ideas - 1/6/2022
- Capitol attack anniversary
- Pope: Choose kids over pets
- Non-Trumpist evangelicals?
- Manchin vs. faith groups
- Fake auction “sells” female Muslims
- Political fashion & journalism
How Christian nationalism drove the insurrection: A religious history of Jan. 6*
Salon: Fanatical, extreme religious faith wasn’t incidental to last year’s Capitol assault: It was a central driving force.
Religion News Service: Jan. 6: A timeline in prayers
Christianity Today: The Capitol attack signaled a post-Christian church, not merely a post-Christian culture
Deseret News: One year after Jan. 6, what’s changed for faith groups?
Don’t choose pets over children, Pope Francis says as birthrates drop*
The Washington Post: Pope Francis lamented Wednesday that many couples are choosing to have more pets than more children, saying that a trend of forgoing child-rearing “takes some of our humanity away.”
Who are you? Non-Trumpist evangelicals struggle to be identified
Baptist News Global: What might we call the non-Trump evangelicals to better differentiate them?
With child tax credit stance, Manchin runs afoul of former faith allies
Religion News Service: The senator’s support for work requirements puts him at odds with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals, among other faith groups.
Arrests after female Muslim activists ‘put up for sale’ in fake auction in India
The Guardian: There were shock waves of anger and disgust in India after it emerged that a website calling itself Bulli Bai, an offensive term for Muslims, had set up a pretend auction of more than 100 Muslim women.
The Spark
It’s O.K. to write about women, fashion and politics — but here’s how to do it better
It’s clear journalists are struggling to find appropriate ways to frame political fashion choices, as evidenced by ongoing debates about what is (and isn’t) newsworthy, says Nieman Lab.
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