Tuesday's News & Ideas - 7/13/2021
- Trauma & a new normal
- Mining on Indigenous land
- Abuse & homeschooling
- CofE stifling debate?
- Billy Graham’s house for sale
- Impact of white newspapers
A new normal: Ten things I’ve learned about trauma
Sojourners: Trauma upends everything we took for granted, including things we didn’t know we took for granted.
Lithium mining in western U.S. comes at a cost to Indigenous religions
High Country News: The mining company hadn’t told the Hualapai Tribe it was searching for lithium on nearby lands. The company eventually bulldozed a network of roads, drilling nearly 50 test wells more than 300 feet deep in the sacred landscape.
How Josh Duggar shifted homeschoolers’ sense of security
Christianity Today: After recognizing that sin and evil aren’t outside threats, families are doing more to promote abuse awareness.
Church of England accused of stifling debate on race and gender
The Guardian: Some members complain that the synod is in danger of becoming a ‘rubber-stamping body.’
Billy Graham’s 1940s cottage in North Carolina is listed for sale at $600,000
Religion News Service: The Grahams lived in the cottage during Billy Graham's rise to fame in the 1940s.
The Spark
How the white press wrote off Black America
Newspapers that championed white supremacy throughout the pre-civil rights South paved* the way for lynching by declaring African Americans nonpersons, The New York Times says.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
