Thursday's News & Ideas - 5/20/2021
- Tulsa massacre reparations
- Mask mandates still important
- World religions on justice
- Biblical womanhood book
- UNC & Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Truth about lying
100 years later, Black church leaders seek reparations for Tulsa massacre
Religion News Service: An African Methodist Episcopal pastor and other Black people of faith say the time has come to repay as well as to remember.
The Guardian: Tulsa massacre survivor, 107, testifies to US Congress: ‘I still smell smoke and see fire’ (video)
If you end church mask mandates, my family can’t be there
Sojourners: If you choose to allow your congregation to unmask now, before we have any sort of herd immunity, you are asking immunocompromised people to choose between risking their lives or being excluded from church.
How can we make it right? What the world’s religions have to say about justice.
Vox: From a Buddhist to a humanist, seven faith leaders weigh in on building a better world.
Taking on the Christian patriarchy: An interview with Beth Allison Barr
Religion & Politics: “Contrary to much popular belief, biblical womanhood is a very modern construct,” the author of a recent books says.
Why is UNC-Chapel Hill withholding tenure from Nikole Hannah-Jones?
Slate: She’s the most recent victim of the right wing’s war on universities.
The Spark
The truth about lying
You can’t spot a liar just by looking, but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work, JSTOR says.
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