Thursday's News & Ideas - 7/15/2021
- Biblical translation on TikTok
- Pandemic & pilgrimages
- Nones keep rising
- Protests in Cuba
- UMC seizes church assets
- Olympic refugee team
Three of the most mistranslated words in Scripture — according to TikTokers
Religion News Service: Explaining the nitty-gritty details of ancient Greek and Hebrew may not seem like viral content, but on TikTok, it’s algorithm fire.
Has the pandemic prepared us for pilgrimages?*
Christian Century: We’re hungrier than ever for physicality, place and embodiment.
Mainline Protestants are still declining, but that’s not good news for evangelicals
Christianity Today: Both traditions are losing out to the unaffiliated.
Cuban American bishops express solidarity, call for humanitarian aid
National Catholic Reporter: Four Cuban American bishops called on the international community to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Cuba and expressed solidarity with them following protests that erupted on the island nation starting July 11.
United Methodist conference seizes church assets in dispute
Associated Press: A regional governing body for a Protestant denomination has seized the assets of a large congregation in Georgia in a dispute over who should be the senior pastor.
The Spark
The Olympic refugee team was created to offer hope. Some athletes are running away from it.
Implicit in the manner of Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu’s managers was the belief that as refugees the athletes* should accept whatever they had, whether there was prize money or not — an attitude he steadily began to reject, Time says.
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