Tuesday's News & Ideas - 10/20/2020
- White evangelicals are outliers
- Bible & originalism
- Finding Black church founders
- Harvest settles with MacDonald
- Asian American group fights racism
- Facebook won’t fix itself
Poll: White evangelicals are religious outliers on every issue of concern to voters
Religion News Service: Only 35% of white evangelicals said the coronavirus is of critical concern, according to PRRI’s 11th annual American Values Survey. Among this group, abortion and terrorism top the list of concerns.
I was taught to read the Bible as literal, and I have some thoughts on Amy Coney Barrett
HuffPost: “Growing up, I was taught to understand ‘the Good Book’ the way an originalist understands the Constitution, and I now know how dangerous that approach can be,” writes Eve Ettinger.
The long, worthwhile search for the five Black women of Grace Baptist Church*
The New York Times: The names of the five Black founders of a church in Mount Vernon, N.Y., seemed lost to history -- until a student journalist stepped in.
Harvest settles multimillion-dollar agreement with James MacDonald
Christianity Today: In Christian arbitration, the preacher was granted $1.45 million and the rights to Walk in the Word.
The Asian American Christian Collaborative’s efforts to confront anti-Asian racism in the church*
Christian Century: The pandemic has made an existing problem worse.
The Spark
Why Facebook can’t fix itself
The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation,* The New Yorker says. Does it actually want to solve the problem?
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