Thursday's News & Ideas - 6/2/2022
- SBC task force proposes reforms
- US religious groups on gun control
- Friendship in America
- What comes after religious right?
- Changing role of chaplains
- Man who built his own cathedral
Southern Baptist abuse task force requests $3 million for reforms, ‘Ministry Check’ website
Religion News Service: Reforms would include a website to track abusers and hiring staff to respond to abuse allegations.
Where do religious groups in the US stand on gun control?
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Despite more than 200 mass shootings in 2022, gun reform remains a divisive issue in the United States — and an apparent impossibility in the current political climate.
The latest research on friendship in America — and why it matters
Deseret News: Americans appear to choose friends who vote like them, worship like them and look like them.
What comes after the religious right?*
The New York Times: Today’s culture war is being waged not between religion and secularism but between groups that the Catholic writer Matthew Schmitz has described as “the woke and the unwoke.”
How the role and visibility of chaplains changed over the past century
The Conversation: As the pandemic unfolded, the work of chaplains changed. Some were declared essential employees and continued to work in person, but they were not allowed into rooms with COVID-19 patients.
The Spark
The man who built his own cathedral
For nearly 60 years, a former monk toiled almost single-handedly on an extraordinary building outside Madrid, The Guardian says. Is it a folly or a masterpiece?
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