Thursday's News & Ideas - 8/1/2024
- Popularity of spiritual direction
- ‘Last Supper’ DJ files legal complaint
- Why people aren’t having kids
- Virtuous friendship
- Queer faith stories in YA fiction
- The transformation of quilts
Spiritual directors meet spiritually curious people where they are
Religion News Service: The popularity of spiritual direction can be attributed in part to its emphasis on facilitating instead of advice-giving and theology-spewing.
Olympic ‘drag queen scene’ DJ files legal complaint after torrent of online abuse
The Guardian: A DJ and LGBTQ+ activist who performed during a controversial scene in the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony has said she is taking legal action after becoming the target of “an extremely violent campaign of cyber-harassment and defamation.”
The real reason people aren’t having kids*
The Atlantic: It’s a need that government subsidies and better family policy can’t necessarily address.
Virtuous friendship*
The Christian Century: Prudence and constancy might not sound like much fun, but they create the load-bearing relationships communities need to flourish.
The author writing young adult fiction full of queer faith stories
Sojourners: Kelly Quindlen’s novels reflect the queer Christian experience in the U.S. today: Some churches and families are affirming, and others are not.
The Spark
From folkway to art: The transformation of quilts
In the late twentieth century, the image of the American quilt shifted from one of practicality and handicraft to a celebration of modernist abstraction, says JSTOR.
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