Thursday's News & Ideas - 5/9/2024
- Professor ousted after ‘woke’ posts
- School lawfully fired gay teacher
- Christian urban designers
- Istanbul church reopened as mosque
- Pastors advocate for public education
- ‘She was no “mammy”’
Grace College professor ousted after online commentators flag ‘woke’ social media posts
Religion News Service: It’s the latest in a string of professor terminations at Christian colleges seemingly tied to clashes over narrowing and often unspoken political and theological criteria.
North Carolina Catholic school didn’t violate the law by firing gay teacher, appeals court rules
NBC News: The termination of a longtime teacher falls under Title VII’s “ministerial exception,” since he performed “vital religious duties,” the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found.
Bringing the city of God to the cities of earth*
Christianity Today: Christian urban designers and developers explain how their faith affects their work — and how their work affects your faith.
Turkey officially converts Istanbul’s iconic Chora Church into a mosque
Religion Unplugged: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reopened an iconic Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it an Islamic house of worship.
State leaders of Pastors for Children gather to strategize on protecting public education
Baptist News Global: The inaugural event was intended to provide faith-inspired organizing strategies and much-needed encouragement for those fighting for public education at the grassroots level.
The Spark
She was no ‘mammy’
Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, “American Gothic,” was of a cleaning woman* in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell, writes Salamishah Tillet in The Atlantic.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
