Thursday's News & Ideas - 7/25/2024
- Kamala Harris’ pastor
- First Baptist of Dallas will rebuild
- J.D. Vance’s religion
- New IHOPKC plan scrapped
- Seminary turning into housing
- Floodplains state park
Meet vice president Kamala Harris’ pastor, civil rights leader Amos C. Brown
Sojourners: Brown is no stranger to speaking faithfully into high-pressure political moments — as a younger man, he was one of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s few students at Morehouse College. Brown, a veteran Civil Rights activist, has served at Third Baptist since 1976.
Robert Jeffress pledges to rebuild historic Dallas sanctuary after fire
Religion News Service: Jeffress pledged to “rebuild and re-create that sanctuary as a standing symbol of truth.”
J. D. Vance’s radical religion*
The New Yorker: How might the Republican V.P. nominee’s conversion to conservative Catholicism influence his political world view?
Plans for new IHOPKC church scrapped. What it means for troubled ministry’s future*
The Kansas City Star: Plans for a new church that appeared to be part of a rebranding effort by the International House of Prayer-Kansas City in the aftermath of the sex scandal involving its founder have been scrapped.
‘Unprecedented’ Marin County housing project moves forward amid neighbor pushback*
San Francisco Chronicle: Developer North Coast Land Holdings proposed redeveloping the former Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary campus in 2020 and has been working on the plan since then.
The Spark
California's newest state park is like a time machine
Dos Rios is supposed to flood — it’s a floodplain, recently transformed into California's newest state park, NPR says.
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