Thursday's News & Ideas - 2/17/2022
- UCC pays off medical debt
- Rowan Williams calls for wealth tax
- What students struggle with
- Hijacking history
- Faith & imperialism
- Immunocompromised being left behind
In two years, this mainline denomination has paid off $100 million in medical debt
Religion News Service: The United Church of Christ announced Monday (Feb. 14) that it used $200,000 from one of its annual Giving Tuesday campaigns to purchase and pay off $33 million in medical debt for residents of Ohio, where the mainline Protestant denomination is based.
Rowan Williams calls for UK wealth tax to tackle ‘spiralling inequality’
The Guardian: The former archbishop and campaigners say a one-off tax on wealthiest 1% would help close gap between rich and poor.
Reading between the lines to support struggling students*
Inside Higher Ed: What and leaders need to know about how student identities and the traumas they’ve experienced in life relate to current challenges.
Hijacking history: Why what we teach matters
Religion & Politics: Conservative Christian activists and organizations have been at work revising American history in ideological fashion for decades and imposing their version on hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren.
Rescuing faith from scientific imperialism*
Christian Century: Kara Slade’s scathing yet incisive volume abounds with examples of modern hubris.
The Spark
The millions of people stuck in pandemic limbo
In the past, immunocompromised people lived with their higher risk of infection, but COVID represents a new threat that, for many, has further jeopardized their ability to be part of the world, The Atlantic says.
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