Wednesday's News & Ideas - 10/5/2022
- UM caucus challenges Columbus Day
- Lectionary ghosts
- C of E review reveals more abuse
- Lost Black cemetery
- NYU battle over chemistry class
- Election denial has spread
United Methodists’ Native American International Caucus calls for end to Columbus Day
Religion News Service: The caucus is asking Congress to approve several bills replacing the federal holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day.
The many ghosts of the Revised Common Lectionary
Sojourners: While there are lots of reasons for not including certain passages, it doesn’t take too long to notice one major pattern: Passages that are uncomfortably violent (or just angry) are frequently left on the cutting room floor, and consequently left out of Sunday worship.
‘Profound shame’: C of E review uncovers 400 new cases of abuse
The Guardian: The inquiry examines records going back to the 1940s and finds a culture of deference, victim-blaming and misogyny.
In graves of a lost Black cemetery, hope for links to family history*
The Washington Post: At a site paved over to make way for Colonial Williamsburg, Black residents seek clues in unearthed graves
At N.Y.U., students were failing organic chemistry. Who was to blame?*
The New York Times: Maitland Jones Jr., a respected professor, defended his standards. But students started a petition, and the university dismissed him.
The Spark
60 percent of Americans will have an election denier on the ballot this fall
From the Carolinas to California, Montana to Florida, election denialism has spread across the country, FiveThirtyEight says.
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