Thursday's News & Ideas - 8/3/2023
- Death penalty for synagogue gunman
- Fundraising & Christian nationalism
- Was Lincoln a Christian?
- Catholic newspaper’s antisemitic past
- Pastor or traitor?
- Henrietta Lacks settlement
Pittsburgh synagogue gunman will be sentenced to death for the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack
Associated Press: The gunman who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers will be sentenced to death for perpetrating the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, a jury decided Wednesday.
For Boebert and Greene, faith — and Christian nationalism — sells
Religion News Service: For the two biggest right-wing firebrands in Congress, faith and fundraising have gone hand in hand.
America’s ‘first evangelical president’ might not have been a Christian at all*
Christianity Today: Two new books probe the mysteries of Abraham Lincoln’s public and private relationship to religion.
A Catholic newspaper confronts its antisemitic history
Columbia Journalism Review: Amid La Croix’s anniversary celebrations, the time was right to wrestle, in greater depth, with the paper’s antisemitic past.
Pastor or traitor? Ukrainians shun a church seen as a Kremlin tool.*
The New York Times: The village parishioners’ decision to oust their priest reflects a broader push within Ukraine to reduce the influence of an Orthodox church that answers to Moscow.
The Spark
Henrietta Lacks’s family reaches settlement in extracted cell lawsuit
Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cells* have been central to decades of important scientific breakthroughs, settled litigation with a biotech company that had allegedly profited from the cells despite knowing that they were extracted without her consent, says The Washington Post.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
