Thursday's News & Ideas - 4/16/2020

Pandemic raises the stakes in US’ partisan religious divide
CNN: The battle over religious exemptions to coronavirus stay-at-home orders captures the likelihood of steadily rising tension in coming years between an increasingly secular American society and the most religiously conservative voters, particularly white evangelical Protestants.

Poll: Reopening churches tops schools, sports venues as a priority for Americans
Deseret News: A new survey shows that people are more interested in regaining access to religious services than to schools, restaurants or bars.

There's an app for that: Christian mindfulness, meditation apps find their moment
Religion News Service: Christian meditation apps add prayer and Scripture to a digital landscape of soft voices and nature sounds.

Is this an apocalypse? We certainly hope so -- you should too
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: When the term is understood as “unveiling,” we can then ask the right questions.

Evangelical leaders urge Trump to release vulnerable ICE detainees during pandemic
HuffPost: These evangelical leaders say their belief in the dignity of each human life compels them to protect vulnerable detainees from COVID-19.

The Spark

Potawatomi women are water protectors
“I'm standing by Lake Michigan for the first time. But it already knows me,” Kaitlin Curtice writes at the Christian Century.

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