Tuesday's News & Ideas - 10/8/2024
- Presidential candidates & religion
- SCOTUS’ new term
- Menachem Froman’s thought
- Pope speaks about war
- Evangelism without justice
- Parrotfish
Why the presidential candidates haven’t been talking about their religion much
NPR: Neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris is talking a lot about their own religion on the campaign trail. But people of faith and religious leaders are talking about them.
One big decision awaits the Supreme Court*
The New York Times: The most important decision the Supreme Court’s justices will make in the new term that begins on Monday transcends the questions presented in any of its many cases. It is whether the court will resume or refrain from injecting itself into the country’s culture wars.
Is religion really the problem?
ARC Magazine: A Kabbalist settler and peacenik, Rabbi Menachem Froman advanced a politics of mutual respect for Judaism's and Islam’s deep ties to the land. On the anniversary of Oct. 7, we need his ideas more than ever.
Those who cause war ‘will be subject to the inflexible judgment of God,’ Pope says
Religion News Service: Pope Francis called for a day of prayer and fasting on the anniversary of the attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens.
Evangelism without justice ignores the words of Jesus
Sojourners: Global evangelicalism remains stymied by old debates, including overly narrow conceptions of evangelism.
The Spark
This awkward fish is a hero of the ocean
The parrotfish’s day job helps prevent an iconic ocean ecosystem from collapsing, Vox says.
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