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Tuesday's News & Ideas - 2/21/2023

  • Asbury revival to end
  • Anglicans rejecting Welby
  • Arrest in CA bishop death
  • Beth Moore memoir
  • Ethics of home ownership
  • Contemporary home canning

Nonstop worship service at Kentucky college set to end after attracting thousands*
The Washington Post: After almost two weeks of 24-hour worship, a revival at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, will end, the school said, with the last public evening service set for Sunday.
Religion News Service: Citing disruptions to school and town, Asbury authorities move to end 13 days of revival

Anglicans reject Justin Welby as head of global church amid anger at same-sex blessings
The Guardian: Church leaders of some developing countries say the Church of England has disqualified itself as ‘mother church.’

Housekeeper’s husband is arrested in fatal shooting of ‘peacemaker’ Catholic bishop
NBC News: The suspect, Carlos Medina, 65, had said Bishop David O’Connell owed him money, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert G. Luna told reporters.

Beth Moore tries to untangle her ‘all knotted-up life’ in new memoir
Religion News Service: In a tender, gracious and at times heartbreaking new book, the beloved Bible teacher and former Southern Baptist recalls the people and the God who saved her from the chaos of her childhood.

The ethics of home ownership in an age of growing inequality
The Conversation: For many Americans today, homeownership is an unattainable dream.

The Spark

A retro hobby for the end times
The delicious, divisive, and surprisingly political world of contemporary home canning, Vox says.

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