Tuesday's News & Ideas - 7/27/2021

Facebook’s next target: The religious experience*
The New York Times: The company is intensifying formal partnerships with faith groups across the United States and shaping the future of religious experience.
Business Insider: Facebook is letting religious groups charge users $10 per month for exclusive content, such as messages from their bishop

Sparked by pandemic fallout, homeschooling surges across US
Associated Press: The U.S. Census Bureau reported in March that the rate of households homeschooling their children rose to 11% by September 2020, more than doubling from 5.4% just six months earlier.

Latinos will determine the future of American evangelicalism*
The Atlantic: The fastest-growing group of evangelicals in the country is poised to transform our religious and political landscapes.

Former Mars Hill elders: Mark Driscoll is still ‘unrepentant,’ unfit to pastor
Christianity Today: Dozens of leaders from the preacher’s former congregation are calling for him to resign from The Trinity Church, where departing members are raising familiar concerns.

The dangers of providing pastoral care*
Christian Century: Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon speak about how woundedness is the predictable price we pay for being sent on outrageous assignments by Jesus.

The Spark

Starbucks can’t be America’s bathroom
There is danger in corporate solutions to government problems, Vox says.

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