Wednesday's News & Ideas - 1/19/2022

New details emerge about hostage-taker’s behavior in days before Texas synagogue standoff
CNN: As authorities work to learn more about the armed man who held four people hostage at a Texas synagogue Saturday, new details are emerging of his activities in the days leading up to the incident, including a heated exchange at a nearby mosque.

Cold case team shines new light on betrayal of Anne Frank
Associated Press: A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War II’s enduring mysteries has reached what it calls the “most likely scenario” of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.
The Washington Post: Researchers say they may have uncovered who betrayed Anne Frank’s family to Nazis*

How a student’s fashion design project upset the created order at Bob Jones University
Baptist News Global: Trustees and administrators at Bob Jones University recently grew so alarmed over a wrap coat designed by a student for a class project that they publicly called the student’s work sacrilegious, blasphemous, dishonoring to Jesus, offensive and egregious.

The untold stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church
Religion & Politics: Amid all the suffering and death, friends and supporters arose in unexpected — often religious — places.

People are hiding that their unvaccinated loved ones died of COVID*
The Atlantic: With the arrival of vaccines, compassion for COVID deaths began to dry up, sometimes replaced by scorn.

The Spark

André Leon Talley, editor and fashion industry force, dies at 73
Called “a creative genius,” he was the rare Black editor* at the top of a field that was mostly white and notoriously elitist, says The New York Times.

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