Tuesday's News & Ideas - 11/26/2024
- Religion in schools
- Food banks stretched
- Marquette University union
- Dreading family visits
- ‘Wicked’ author interview
- Land Back and climate
More states are testing the limits around religion in public schools*
Education Week: A wave of policies mixing public education and religion are challenging the church-state divide.
Food banks thank God for bacon, buying in bulk, and local support*
Christianity Today: With grocery prices up, ministries across the country stretch to feed millions of hungry families during the holidays.
Marquette University uses religious exemption to squash unionizing efforts
National Catholic Reporter: Pro-union faculty and their supporters say the university’s move goes against the school's own mission and Catholic identity.
Dreading holiday arguments about religion and politics? Here’s some advice
Sojourners: In my experience of traveling home every year over the past decade, I have found a few helpful paths for navigating holiday gatherings.
Q&A: 'Wicked' author Gregory Maguire on souls, saints and religion in Oz
Religion News Service: In the 1995 novel that inspired the musical and film, the Wicked Witch of the West is a green-skinned child of a minister exploited for his missionary endeavors.
The Spark
Tribal lands were stolen. What happens when those ancestral territories are returned?
The Land Back movement is long-overdue justice. It’s also a climate solution, Vox says.
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