Thursday's News & Ideas - 3/24/2022
- The modern outrage cycle
- LGBTQ spouses & Calvin University
- Workplaces are in denial
- Ukraine coverage & gender
- Prophetic voices of 20th century
- Salvaged e-scooters
Everyone wants forgiveness, but no one is being forgiven
Vox: Modern outrage is a cycle. Could a culture of public forgiveness ever break it?
Fallout over LGBTQ spouses at Calvin University captures broader evangelical divide
Religion News Service: A same-sex wedding led the university to split with its longtime research center over Christian teaching on sexuality.
Workplaces are in denial over how much Americans have changed
The Guardian: Employers are trying desperately to ignore that we’ve become fundamentally different humans
Ukraine coverage shows gender roles are changing on the battlefield and in the newsroom
Nieman Lab: New war narratives don’t differentiate between fighting and caring as actions of war.
Common threads among five prophetic voices of the 20th century*
Christian Century: “We turn to Thurman, Bonhoeffer, Day, Heschel, and Niebuhr because they never let us forget the important questions,” documentarian Martin Doblmeier says.
The Spark
Designers used e-scooters tossed in rivers to make furniture, proving junk can find purpose
See what this design studio did with scooters salvaged from the canals of Malmö in Sweden, Fast Company says.
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