Thursday's News & Ideas - 6/15/2023
- SBC commits to ban on women pastors
- SBC status on abuse reform
- Polish bus route to Hel
- Anti-porn app used for surveillance
- Battle for Oak Flat
- Returning a stolen Picasso
Southern Baptists start constitutional step naming only men as pastors
Religion News Service: The new language would add that a church “affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”
Southern Baptists committed to abuse reform. What happened?*
Christianity Today: With the female-pastor debate getting the most attention, the slow work to address abuse plods on.
No 666 to Hel: Polish bus route drops ‘devil’s number’ after Christian protests
The Guardian: The operator announced that the route to the town of Hel has been redesignated as No 669 – a change that has prompted public outcry.
An anti-porn app put him in jail and his family under surveillance*
Wired: A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame.
Battle for Oak Flat: How Apache opposition to a copper mine became a religious liberty test*
The Los Angeles Times: Along with others from the nearby San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Wendsler Nosie Sr. sued to block a pending federal land swap that would hand this area, called Oak Flat, over to Rio Tinto and its mining partner, BHP Group, after being under explicit federal protection since 1955.
The Spark
Hey dad, can you help me return the Picasso I stole?
A painting* that went missing in 1969 turned up at a museum’s doorstep before the F.B.I. could hunt it down. No one knew how or why — until now, The New York Times says.
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