Tuesday's News & Ideas - 8/15/2023
- Baylor gets exemption from Title IX
- Anglican churches join Episcopal Church
- Father Strobel in Nashville
- Climate change & sacred sites
- Christian authoritarianism
- Science of reading
Baylor University wins exemption from Title IX’s sexual harassment provisions
Religion News Service: The private Baptist school argued discrimination complaints made by LGBTQ students were “inconsistent” with the university’s religious values.
Two Anglican church plants leave for the Episcopal Church*
Christianity Today: Resurrection South Austin is the latest to go, citing issues around race, women, sexual minorities, and abuse response.
Proof that one life can change the world*
The New York Times: Even before Nashville’s swift and stunning growth began to gentrify working-class and impoverished neighborhoods, Father Strobel had already become a civic conscience.
Threat from climate change to some of India’s sacred pilgrimage sites is reshaping religious beliefs
The Conversation: Weather-related disasters are being understood as a result of the immoral actions of human beings, particularly the disregard for the environment.
Compassionate Christian authoritarianism: The leftist utopia the right thinks will save the church*
Salon: The compassionate part only serves to make authoritarianism more palatable.
The Spark
The new “science of reading” movement
A huge shift in how kids are taught to read is underway. But the reading wars probably aren’t gone for good, Vox says.
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