Wednesday's News & Ideas - 1/12/2022
- Vaccination is moral
- Understanding drug use
- Sabbath closures?
- Influencing patriarchal faith
- Indigenous sacred sites
- Southern fictions
Pope suggests getting COVID vaccine is a ‘moral obligation’
Associated Press: Pope Francis lamented that ideological divides were discouraging people from getting vaccinated.
What Christians get wrong about drug use
Sojourners: More than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States in the 12-month period ending in April 2021 — a 28.5 percent increase over the previous year. With this tragic loss of human life, it would be easy to believe that the drugs themselves are evil.
Could Sabbath closure laws make a comeback?
Deseret News: Here’s why some political commentators and legal scholars are tweeting their support for taking a Sabbath.
Women are finding new ways to influence male-led faiths
The Conversation: Three female academics discuss how women are forging new pathways in faith leadership throughout religions that traditionally have been patriarchal.
How Ohio’s Indigenous sacred sites became a religious flashpoint
National Catholic Reporter: Southern Ohio is home to more than 70 earthworks constructed by the Indigenous Adena and Hopewell cultures.
The Spark
The real places that gave rise to Southern fictions
Tema Stauffer’s photographs* explore how the experience of going somewhere is shaped by your expectations of what you will find, The New Yorker says.
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