Thursday's News & Ideas - 3/3/2022
- CA church shooting investigation
- The Bible & prison abolition
- Colleges & ‘ministerial exception’
- Orthodoxy in Russia, Ukraine
- Faith & water conservation
- Black History Month’s end
Court documents show abuse before California church shooting
Associated Press: Investigators were trying to piece together 39-year-old David Mora’s motive and how he got the weapon used in the shooting around 5 p.m. Monday at The Church in Sacramento, a nondenominational Christian place of worship.
What does the Bible say about prisons?
Sojourners: Here are 10 Bible passages that help us wrestle with questions of mass incarceration, criminalization and violence.
A broader definition of the ‘ministerial exception’
Inside Higher Ed: Four conservative Supreme Court justices criticize a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that said a college wasn’t exempt.
Also at stake in Ukraine: the future of two Orthodox churches*
The New York Times: The Russian church hopes to reunite with the independent Ukrainian branch under a single patriarch in Moscow that would allow it to control the holiest sites of Orthodoxy in the Slavic world.
The Didache’s ancient wisdom on baptism lands different in a megadrought*
The Christian Century: Christ’s words on the cross, “I thirst,” reverberate through all creatures suffering inadequate rainfall and water.
The Spark
Black History Month is over. Thank goodness.
“Every year, what is intended to be a time of remembrance and storytelling becomes a month of additional labor* — usually with very little notice — for Black people,” writes Cole Arthur Riley in The Washington Post.
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