Tuesday's News & Ideas - 5/28/2024
- Fuller reconsidering sexual standards
- Missionaries killed in Haiti
- Francis apologizes for slur
- World Vision appeals ruling
- Texas GOP’s religious speech
- Secrets of the Stasi
California evangelical seminary ponders changes that would make it more welcoming to LGBTQ students
Associated Press: Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical school in Pasadena, California, is deliberating whether to become more open to LGBTQ+ students who previously faced possible expulsion if found to be in a same-sex union.
American missionary couple, Haitian mission director killed by gangs in Haiti
Religion News Service: Natalie and Davy Lloyd relocated from Oklahoma to Haiti in 2022 to work for Missions in Haiti, Inc. The third person killed was the Haitian director of the organization, Jude Montis.
Pope Francis apologizes for using a homophobic slur during a meeting with bishops
CNN: The 87-year-old pontiff reportedly made the homophobic remark in a closed-door meeting last week as he told Italian bishops that gay men shouldn’t be allowed to train for the priesthood.
World Vision appeals employment discrimination case to ninth circuit*
Christianity Today: Federal appeals courts are starting to wrestle with how nondiscrimination laws apply to religious organizations when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity.
At Texas GOP convention, Republicans call for spiritual warfare*
The Texas Tribune: At the three-day convention, delegates moved the needle further to the right, preaching Christian nationalism and approving rules that would give them unprecedented control of elections.
The Spark
Piecing together the secrets of the Stasi
After the Berlin Wall fell, agents of East Germany’s secret police* frantically tore apart their records. Archivists have spent the past thirty years trying to restore them, The New Yorker says.
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