Tuesday's News & Ideas - 10/29/2024
- CCM artists who left Christianity
- Revelation & immigration rhetoric
- Church in Sleepy Hollow
- Culture wars in Philly church
- Election of no choice for Muslims
- Ghost stories
After exiting the Christian music industry, these artists engage religion on their terms
Religion News Service: After interrogating their beliefs, some onetime CCM artists are revisiting faith in some fashion, trying on elements they’d previously discarded and writing music for listeners who might be more spiritual than religious.
Americans use the Book of Revelation to talk about immigration – and always have
The Conversation: Depicting immigrants as a threat has been a pillar of Trump’s message since 2015. And the types of terms he uses aren’t just disparaging. It might not seem like it, but Trump is continuing a long tradition in American politics: using language shaped by the Bible.
How a legendary church in Sleepy Hollow stays faithful in a Halloween mecca
Religion Unplugged: This compounding enthusiasm for a haunted churchyard has resulted in tourism, which has taken its toll on the both the church and the village of Sleepy Hollow during the Halloween season and beyond.
How culture wars divided one small progressive church in Philadelphia
NPR: Despite their shared egalitarian vision, the congregation disagreed over some of the same issues that have divided the country — including the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial reckoning after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer.
In Philadelphia, a Muslim hub, presidential election feels to many like no choice at all
Religion News Service: The city’s growing Muslim Democratic establishment is trying to rally its constituency to the polls in an atmosphere of deep mistrust of either candidate.
The Spark
The lessons of lore
Ghost stories reveal our collective anxieties amid times of change, Longreads says.
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