Tuesday's News & Ideas - 4/5/2022
- Afghan refugees in UCC churches
- Honoring Dr. King’s dream
- Church’s limits
- LDS general conference
- Former bishop’s deposition
- Darwin’s ‘tree of life’ notebooks
As Afghan refugees celebrate Islam’s holy month, church gives Ramadan lessons
Religion News Service: Somewhere between 75 and 100 UCC churches are actively sponsoring Afghan families — about 800 individuals — who have recently arrived in the US.
Honoring and renewing Dr. King’s other, more challenging, dream — 55 years later
Religion Dispatches: For the keepers of King’s dream, both young and old, violence is the common thread uniting racial and economic and patriarchal oppressions.
Love your church within its limits
Christianity Today: Why accepting a congregation’s shortcomings is key to developing its strengths.
Mormon leader reaffirms faith’s stance on same-sex marriage
Associated Press: A top leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reaffirmed the faith’s opposition to same-sex marriage and “changes that confuse or alter gender” as debates over gender and sexuality reemerge throughout the United States.
In shockingly frank deposition, former bishop admits moving alleged abusers from treatment to ministry*
America: He admitted that the transfers were consistently made without informing local police, families of abuse victims or Catholics in Albany’s parishes, where the men were reassigned.
The Spark
Darwin’s missing ‘tree of life’ notebooks mysteriously returned after 20 years
The notebooks were wrapped in plastic and left in a bright pink gift bag, with no obvious signs of damage, outside a Cambridge University librarian’s office, NBC News says.
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