Thursday's News & Ideas - 7/28/2022
- Fewer young religious women
- Abolitionist spirituality
- Heat challenges churches
- Protests spark Lambeth changes
- Monument destroyed
- Reporting the Tuskegee Study
With Gen Z, Women Are No Longer More Religious than Men
Christianity Today: Younger generations see female nones on the rise.
Practicing abolitionist spirituality
Christian Century: What are you willing to sacrifice for racial justice?
Blistering summer challenges churches
United Methodist News: A scorching summer has presented challenges and opportunities for United Methodist ministry.
Same-sex marriage sparks divisive debate at twice-delayed Lambeth Conference
Religion News Service: Protests forced the archbishop of Canterbury to revise the conference documents and to make an embarrassing, last-minute U-turn on how the talks will be conducted.
‘A wave of love’: Episcopal bishops join march in support of LGBTQ+ inclusion in Canterbury
Episcopal News Service: More than a dozen Episcopal bishops joined a march across the campus of the University of Kent, site of the Lambeth Conference, to show support for LGBTQ+ inclusion.
A Georgia monument was destroyed. Locals blame conspiracy theories.
NPR: A rural roadside attraction was blown up earlier this month after protests, conspiracy theories and vandalism.
The Spark
How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story
As a young journalist, Jean Heller uncovered the harrowing story of the US government’s medical experiment on hundreds of poor Black men, the Associated Press explains.
