Tuesday's News & Ideas - 1/26/2021
- Church finances in COVID
- Warnock’s sermon
- Anti-bullying for LGBTQ youth
- Evangelical civil war?
- Will Biden end death penalty?
- Book sales rise in Britain
Despite COVID, ‘worst-case scenario’ did not emerge for church finances
Baptist News Global: Eleven months after the global COVID-19 pandemic forced the closing of churches and synagogues nationwide, faith communities of all stripes have stepped into the new year with new goals and expectations for how to fund and conduct their ministries and missions.
In Sunday sermon, Warnock, now senator and pastor, said he heard ‘echoes of the spirit’ in swearings-in
Religion News Service: Warnock, who follows other members of Congress who have led congregations and served at the Capitol, titled his sermon ‘On Making Your Next Move.’
Catholic bishops sign statement to LGBT youth: ‘God created you, God loves you.’*
America: A group of U.S. Catholic bishops, including a cardinal and an archbishop, have signed a statement of support for L.G.B.T. youth, telling them, “God created you, God loves you and God is on your side.”
I lived among evangelicals and admired them. Now I think a reckoning is due.*
Forward: Like the post-Trump Republican Party, evangelicals may be facing an internal civil war.
After Trump’s execution spree, criminal justice leaders urge Biden to end death penalty
HuffPost: Prosecutors want President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of those on federal death row and end capital punishment once and for all.
The Spark
Book sales defy pandemic to hit eight-year high
Despite shops being closed for much of 2020, figures show Britons bought books in volume -- although many authors continued to struggle, The Guardian says.
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