Tuesday's News & Ideas - 9/5/2023
- ‘Jesus Calling’ author dies
- Judge insists on religious liberty training
- Harding School of Theology to move
- Building donated to evangelist
- Salisbury Cathedral repair
- Burials of vampires & revenants
Sarah Young, publicity-shy superstar author of ‘Jesus Calling,’ dies at 77
Religion News Service: First published in 2004, the devotional has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
Judge rejects Southwest’s ‘gripe’ over religious liberty training order
Reuters: A Texas federal judge has doubled down on his requirement that lawyers at Southwest Airlines attend a “religious liberty training” conducted by conservative Christian group Alliance Defending Freedom.
Harding School of Theology set to leave Memphis
Religion Unplugged: Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee, the only freestanding seminary among Churches of Christ, will move to the main campus of Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, beginning in fall 2024.
Evangelist accepts $9.5 million donated building for youth pastor training center*
AL.com: A commercial real estate firm that owned a $9.5 million corporate office tower formerly used to train bankers has donated it to a Birmingham ministry that plans to use it to train youth pastors.
Salisbury Cathedral prepares for final ‘topping out’ after 37 years of repairs
The Guardian: Scaffolding will soon be taken down on the 13th-century building as the huge restoration program nears its end.
The Spark
Undying dread: A 400-year-old corpse, locked to its grave
In 17th-century Europe, the dead were a constant threat to rise again and bedevil the living. Now archaeologists have found the remains of a suspected child revenant,* The New York Times says.
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