Tuesday's News & Ideas - 12/10/2019
- Nativity shows Jesus as refugee
- Filipino head of Vatican’s missions
- Rural churches struggle in AL
- Disability-inclusive grants
- Muhammad in top 10 names
- Boys need to read books about girls
Church unveils nativity scene depicting holy family as caged refugees
CBS: The Claremont church’s display shows classic nativity figurines of Joseph and Mary in cages on either side of a cage containing the manger of Jesus.
Pope Francis taps Filipino Cardinal to Vatican's evangelization powerhouse
Religion News Service: It's a move that emphasizes this pontificate’s efforts to highlight the global peripheries and taps the cardinal as a possible successor.
Heyday of the rural church slips away as country church gets swallowed by the suburbs*
AL.com: Oak Grove Baptist Church sits near the intersection of two highways in Alabama. In the eighties it drew attendance of dozens weekly. That’s dwindled.
How foundations can lead on disability-inclusive grantmaking*
SSIR: The inclusion of disabled people in your organization is not about “helping” them come on board while leaving the organization unchanged.
Muhammad appears in top 10 baby name list for the first time
HuffPost: The name, which honors Islam’s founder, the Prophet Muhammad, crawled from 14th place in 2018 to 10th place in 2019, according to data collected from U.S. parents by BabyCenter.
The Spark
Shopping for a boy? Give him a book about a girl
Teenage girls read books about everyone else -- here's why everyone else should return the favor, Electric Literature says.
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