Thursday's News & Ideas - 9/30/2021
- Women at greater risk of Islamophobia
- Religious weight-loss ‘cult’
- Died: Eberhard Jüngel
- OK welcomes Afghan refugees
- The gospel of Brandi Carlile
- Mental health: social media ‘minefield’
Muslim women more likely than men to experience Islamophobia, survey finds
Religion News Service: A total of 1,123 Muslims in the US participated in the 2020 survey that was conducted between Oct. 14 and Nov. 2.
‘This is a cult’: inside the shocking story of a religious weight-loss group
The Guardian: In a strange new docuseries, the dark world of the Remnant Fellowship and its ‘pray yourself thin’ leader Gwen Shamblin is brought to light.
Died: Eberhard Jüngel, theologian who saw Trinity revealed in the cross
Christianity Today: East German student of Karl Barth and Martin Heidegger believed “God has become speakable.”
Oklahoma welcomes hundreds of Afghan refugees – despite the state GOP’s objections
NPR: Preparing for the refugees’ arrival has fallen largely on the shoulders of the city's faith leaders.
Brandi Carlile’s radical gospel of gentleness
Sojourners: “I’ve found that the way to stay gentle – when I can get there, when I can do it – is found in the revolutionary gospel of forgiveness.”
The Spark
How mental health became a social media minefield
Social media is now basically WebMD for mental health, says Vox.
