Tuesday's News & Ideas - 4/4/2023
- Church in Nashville after shooting
- Hamline president to retire
- First Things legacy
- Reckoning at community colleges
- Muslim scholars on immigration bias
- The ultimate trip
A week after the Nashville school shooting, a pastor speaks of grieving with hope
NPR: Nathan Parker, senior pastor at Woodmont Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, fought back tears at the pulpit on Sunday as he commenced the first service since an assailant opened fire at a nearby elementary school, killing six people.
Hamline University president to retire following Islamic art controversy
Religion News Service: The president of Hamline University, who was widely criticized for her response to a professor who showed a painting of the Prophet Muhammad, announced she would retire in 2024.
The intellectual source code for national conservatism can be found at this niche Catholic publication
Religion Dispatches: First Things describes itself as “America’s most influential journal of religion and public life.” Its slogan is no idle boast.
Community colleges are reeling. ‘The reckoning is here.’
Associated Press: With scant advising, many community college students spend time and money on courses that won’t transfer or that they don’t need.
Shia Muslim scholars denied entry into US suspect religious bias
The Guardian: Some believe that a 2015 law restricting entry to those who have traveled to Iraq or Iran – where Shias make pilgrimages – is to blame.
The Spark
A psychedelics pioneer takes the ultimate trip
As the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, Dr. Roland Griffiths has been a pioneer in investigating the ways in which psychedelics* can help treat depression, addiction and psychological distress. Now, with a likely terminal cancer diagnosis, he is learning to die, The New York Times Magazine says.
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