Thursday's News & Ideas - 8/26/2021
- Dylann Roof sentence upheld
- Nashville pastor dies
- Pandemic preaching problems
- Texas religious liberty
- Thinking & racism
- Titanic documentary
Court upholds death sentence for church shooter Dylann Roof
Associated Press: A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, saying the legal record cannot even capture the “full horror” of what he did.
Thomas McKenzie, Nashville Anglican pastor, and eldest child killed in car crash
Religion News Service: The Rev. Thomas McKenzie was on his first day of sabbatical, taking his 22-year-old to college in New Mexico.
Pastors ponder pandemic preaching problems — and how they’ve survived
Baptist News Global: The transformation in preaching style spawned a more complex sermon study and preparation process made still more daunting by having to preach to a virtual congregation.
How a COVID-19 order in Texas launched an unusual religious liberty battle
Deseret News: Gov. Greg Abbott has long cast himself as a defender of religious liberty. Now, he finds himself accused of violating the free exercise rights of a Catholic group
‘You can't think yourself out of racism’
National Catholic Reporter: Black religion scholars call for conversion
The Spark
A century after the Titanic sank, a film tries to rescue 6 survivors’ stories
“The Six,” a new documentary, attempts to track down the fate of Chinese sailors who survived the Titanic but were scattered by Western immigration laws, The New York Times says.
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