Tuesday’s News & Ideas - 6/17/2025
- After Mother Emanuel shooting
- Brueggemann’s big God
- Survey of Jewish students
- Where are African saints?
- ‘Supernatural church’
- Dismantling food pantry
10 years after the deadly church shooting, a new history of ‘Mother Emanuel’
NPR: June 17 marks 10 years since a deadly mass shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shocked the nation.
Walter Brueggemann’s big imagination and even bigger God*
Christianity Today: Simply put, Brueggemann was one of the most prolific and influential Old Testament scholars of the past century, with a bibliography of over 120 separate titles.
Conflicted, disillusioned, disengaged: The unsettled center of Jewish student opinion after Oct. 7
The Conversation: As commencement season comes to a close, many campuses remain riven by the war.
A church grows in Africa, but where are its saints?
Religion Unplugged: Across Africa, many Catholic faithful have long yearned for the Catholic Church to fully recognize the spiritual heroes who’ve shaped their communities
What is a ‘supernatural church?’ 5 things to know about a growing Christian branch*
Tampa Bay Times: The offshoot leans far more heavily into revelations and prophecy than mainstream Christian churches.
The Spark
‘It takes a village’ to dismantle a food pantry
The City of Greensboro eliminated a neighborhood food pantry* that had problems with cleanliness, drawing rats and insects. The community it fed says they should have worked with them to solve the problems, The Assembly reports.
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