Thursday's News & Ideas - 3/18/2021

Christian leaders wrestle with Atlanta shooting suspect’s Southern Baptist ties*
The Washington Post: Years before being suspected of killing eight people in a suburb of Atlanta, including six Asian women, Robert Aaron Long was active in his Southern Baptist congregation.
NBC News: Racism, sexism must be considered in Atlanta case involving killing of six Asian women, experts say

Don’t discount evangelicalism as a factor in racist murder of Asian spa workers in Georgia
Religion Dispatches: When the man who confessed to the murders was the son of a youth pastor who told police he had a “sex addiction,” it struck Chrissy Stroop that we must not ignore the specifically evangelical Protestant contours of this story.

Analog faith in a digital age
Religion & Politics: The internet drives a general crisis of credibility.

Holy Saturday in a harrowing time*
Christian Century: Christ harrows hell, and nowhere are we beyond the hand that holds that harrow.

Fauci and Collins join interfaith leaders at cathedral vaccine ‘confidence event’
Religion News Service: A couple dozen religious leaders -- of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths -- received their shots from local health officials at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday.

The Spark

A Black physicist is borne back ceaselessly into the past
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein wants to live in a world where she can be a physicist without also being asked to speak on or compensate for the persistent racism of institutions, Catapult says.

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