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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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