Tuesday's News & Ideas - 6/23/2024
- Leatherwood removed and reinstated
- Pastor-scholar closes church
- RNC prayer breakfast
- Dying in community
- Church shelters unhoused
- Sexual violence during war
SBC’s public policy arm rescinds removal of president, chair steps down amid controversy*
The Tennessean: The Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm on Tuesday morning retracted a statement from its executive committee on the removal of its president, Brent Leatherwood.
As a scholar, he’s charted the decline in religion. Now the church he pastors has closed its doors
The Associated Press: Members voted unanimously to close the church, a century and a half after it was created by hardscrabble farmers in this southern Illinois community of about 14,000 people.
At the RNC prayer breakfast, speakers said the quiet part out loud
Mother Jones: In personal testimonies chock full of miracles and Bible verses, speakers assured the crowd that God was guiding their presidential candidate, and would help them accomplish their political goals — especially a complete end to abortion.
Dying in community: Being present in the hour of death
Sojourners: Reflections from a palliative care doctor in Rwanda.
Federal judge sides with church in unhoused shelter standoff
The Guardian: Castle Rock, Colorado, cannot prevent the church from the “quintessential act” of offering temporary refuge.
The Spark
What we know about the weaponization of sexual violence on October 7th
Rape is a shocking and sadly predictable feature of war. But the nature of the crime* makes it difficult to document and, consequently, to prosecute, The New Yorker says.
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