Thursday's News & Ideas - 3/14/2024
- Report: Evangelicals on social issues
- Churches divided by COVID
- Brazil’s Christian influencers
- Pope does not intend to resign
- Deathbed visions research
- Great American novels
New report details what evangelicals think about social and political issues
Religion Unplugged: While a majority of American evangelicals may be united by fundamental spiritual beliefs, they are by no means in agreement on a variety of hot-button subjects, according to a new study.
It wasn’t your imagination: New study proves divisions created in churches by COVID
Baptist News Global: A new study exposes the stress and pain clergy endured during the COVID-19 pandemic as divisions over public health restrictions transformed many churches into culture-war battlefields.
Come, follow me: Brazil’s Christian influencers outcompete pastors for attention*
Christianity Today: Pastors in Brazil worry that a weekly sermon is not enough to compete with the popular social media personalities their congregants listen to the rest of the week.
Pope says option of resigning is only ‘a distant hypothesis’
Reuters: Pope Francis has no intention of resigning as he feels that his health is good enough to allow him to carry on, he says in a new book whose excerpts were published by Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper on Thursday.
What deathbed visions teach us about living*
The New York Times Magazine: Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that seems to help the dying, as well as those they leave behind.
The Spark
The great American novels
The American canon* is more capacious, more fluid and more fragile than perhaps ever before. But what, exactly, is in it? The Atlantic attempted to discover just that.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
