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Tuesday's News & Ideas - 3/3/2020

  • Forgiveness for clergy abuse?
  • Future of faith & Gen Z
  • Bible in ASL
  • CA’s oldest temple on election
  • Pius XII archives open
  • Election’s strangest friendship

On forgiveness, clergy abuse, and the need for new understandings
The Revealer: What should survivors do when the Church asks them for forgiveness?

Want some good news about the future of faith? Look to Generation Z
Deseret News: Recent research on Generation Z holds some good news for people worried about the fate of organized religion.

Jehovah’s Witnesses complete entire Bible in American Sign Language
Religion News Service: The last of the Bible's 66 books was released in video on the Jehovah's Witnesses website, completing what the U.S. spokesman for the church said is the only complete Bible in ASL.

Ahead of Super Tuesday California’s oldest temple is politically diverse, yet spiritually united*
The Forward: The community faces a tenuous future, but it is becoming a center of Jewish learning and observance that unites people in one of the most polarized areas in the state.

Vatican opens archives of World War II-era Pope Pius XII
NPR: After decades of pressure from historians and Jewish groups, the Vatican on Monday began allowing scholars access to the archives of Pope Pius XII, the controversial World War II-era pontiff.

The Spark

Remembering this election’s strangest friendship: Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar
Running for president is a weird and lonely experience. At least Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar, two salty candidates, had their own kind of friendship, BuzzFeed reports.

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Lilly Endowment Inc. announces Exploring Christian Practices Initiative

The Exploring Christian Practices Initiative aims to multiply opportunities and increase access to settings that help individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds explore and engage in Christian practices to address their spiritual interests and questions, find and build community with others, nourish their religious lives and grow in faith. 

In this open and competitive initiative, the Endowment invites charitable organizations to submit proposals for grants of up to $2.5 million each that may be used for up to a five-year period to develop new and/or enhance existing programs that present promising strategies for advancing the aim of the initiative and provide compelling and thoughtful responses to its guiding questions. The Endowment anticipates awarding approximately 60 grants and announcing grant awards in December 2026.

The Endowment will host four virtual information sessions (February 17, 19, 24, and 25) to discuss the Exploring Christian Practices guidelines for submitting a proposal. An Interest Form and Letter of Interest are due March 25, 2026. Complete proposals are due May 18, 2026.

Learn More and register for information sessions