Tuesday's News & Ideas - 3/22/2022
- Holocaust survivor killed in Ukraine
- Great Resignation for pastors?
- Boy Scouts bankruptcy
- Religious groups hiring & SCOTUS
- Affordable housing in former church
- Knitting.com fiasco
Russian strike kills Holocaust survivor in Ukraine
HuffPost: Boris Romanchenko, a 96-year-old Ukrainian who survived four concentration camps during the Holocaust, was killed by shelling on his home in Kharkiv.
Is a Great Resignation brewing for pastors?
Religion News Service: If there is a mass exodus, it’s likely not the pandemic alone that burned clergy out.
Scouts reach deal with Catholic committee in BSA bankruptcy
Associated Press: Under the settlement, virtually every Roman Catholic entity that was involved with Scouting would be considered a ‘participating chartered organization’ in the bankruptcy.
Supreme Court conservatives say religious groups should be free to hire only like-minded believers
NBC News: Forcing religious organizations to hire people who don’t share their religious views would undermine their autonomy and their continued viability, Alito wrote.
Plan to convert Chicago church into affordable housing gets $2 million boost
Block Club: LUCHA was awarded funds from Congress that will be used to convert a nearly 100-year-old church into 22 apartments.
The Spark
Two tech bros bought knitting.com. It didn’t go well.
Earlier this year, two unsuspecting tech bros attempted to start an online business in knitting supply sales, assuming it would be easy to “disrupt” a market full of hobbyists and grandmas. They could not have been more wrong, The Daily Beast says.
