Thursday's News & Ideas - 7/1/2021
- More unmarked graves
- Skipping church post-pandemic?
- Segregationist Christians
- Churches & climate
- Immigrant clergy fasting
- Climate change knowledge
This Canada Day, let’s remember: this country was built on genocide
The Guardian: Reports of unmarked graves of Indigenous children have shocked many Canadians. But these just confirmed what we knew all along.
Associated Press: Canadian Indigenous group says more graves found at new site
Millions skipped church during pandemic. Will they return?
Associated Press: As the pandemic recedes in the United States and in-person services resume, worries of a deepening slide in attendance are universal.
How white southern Christians fought to preserve segregation
Religion & Politics: Americans are in the midst of a reckoning about systemic racism and its history in the United States.
Sacred grounds
Grist: In the Midwest, faith communities are ramping up the fight against climate change.
For 3 weeks, clergy and immigrants fasted to pressure lawmakers for pathway to citizenship
Religion News Service: ‘You’ve helped raise the consciousness and the awareness of the U.S. Congress,’ Rep. Joaquin Castro told fasters on Wednesday (June 30) at Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, D.C.
The Spark
All the right words on climate have already been said
What more about climate change does anyone need to know? Nieman Lab asks. What else is there to say?
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