Tuesday's News & Ideas - 12/14/21
- SCOTUS rejects vaccine mandate challenge
- Response to tornado damage
- Black female bishop honored
- Safe place for LGBTQ asylum seekers
- Community reclaims vacant space
- Playgrounds honor Sandy Hook victims
U.S. Supreme Court rejects religious challenge to New York vaccine mandate
Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected challenges to New York's refusal to allow religious exemptions to the state's COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
Faith-based disaster relief teams fan out across 6 states to help tornado recovery
Religion News Service: Faith-based disaster relief teams are already working in several of the areas hardest hit by last week’s devastating tornadoes.
Remember the Robert E. Lee window in Boise? A new historic figure just replaced him
Idaho Statesman: The Cathedral of the Rockies First United Methodist Church has installed a new stained glass window depicting Leontine T. Kelly, the first Black female Bishop in the United Methodist Church.
‘A safe place.’ For LGBT asylum seekers, a new shot at life
Associated Press: A Massachusetts church group has opened a new, permanent home for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender asylum seekers.
'Turn the lights on': In Indianapolis, a vacant school and a vision for the community
Indianapolis Star: A local community empowerment group plans to turn a vacant 40,000 square-foot building into an “ecosystem” of educational opportunities, services and spaces that will serve the needs of the northeast Indianapolis community.
The Spark
26 playgrounds honor the students and the teachers killed at Sandy Hook
Nine years after 20 first-graders and six educators were murdered in an act of mass gun violence, a network of playgrounds constructed across three states provides a physical legacy, CNN reports.
