Wednesday's News & Ideas - 10/27/2021
- Christian Right’s revolution
- Catholic feminist movement
- Leading a church is hard in 2021
- Descendants of Holocaust survivors
- Russian repression in Siberia
- The Texas Ghost Gals
The (Christian Right) revolution starts small and local
Religion Dispatches: Far from being deflated by the defeat of Donald Trump in 2020, the Christian Right is seeking to ignite a grassroots political revolution beginning with local offices. It’s been widely reported that the massive apparatus of the Christian Right is targeting school boards and other local races in 2021.
A woman pope? Meet the feminists trying to save the Catholic Church
CNN: Maria 2.0 is a Catholic women’s movement calling for equality and a radical overhaul of the church.
My church doesn’t know what to do anymore*
The Atlantic: In some ways, leading a church is harder now, in 2021, than it was in 2020, during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.
A moving ‘reunion’ for descendants of Holocaust survivors
Associated Press: Anna Salton Eisen found old pictures of Jewish prisoners who survived the Holocaust in a folder her late father, George Lucius Salton, kept most of his life.
Long arm of Russian law reaches obscure Siberian church*
The New York Times: The arrest of the leader of a small religious group reveals that Russian repression reaches even to the depths of the Siberian forest.
The Spark
When your mother is a ghost hunter
For Texas Monthly, Cat Cardenas goes on the hunt with TikTok star Brittany Broski and her mother Heather Long, lead investigator of the Texas Ghost Gals.*
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
