Wednesday's News & Ideas - 12/11/2019

Jersey City shooting: Suspect published anti-Semitic posts, official says*
New York Times: The firefight that left six people dead is believed to have been motivated by anti-Semitic and anti-police sentiments, an official said.

UK politicians ‘don’t do God’ but religion matters in this election
CNBC: There’s a general attitude in the U.K. that politics and faith do not mix well, yet religion has featured prominently in the 2019 election debate.

Churches ask North Dakota county to keep taking refugees
Associated Press: A North Dakota county on Monday voted to accept no more than 25 refugees next year, after initially signaling it would be the first to ban them since President Donald Trump ordered that states and counties should have the power to do so.

As GC2020 nears, fewer keep to the sidelines
United Methodist News Service: In the denomination’s longtime homosexuality debate, the fallout continues from GC2019.

Church unearthed in Ethiopia rewrites the history of Christianity in Africa
Smithsonian Magazine: Archaeologists now can more closely date when the religion spread to the Aksumite Empire.

The Spark

Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019
“We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow,” the climate activist said to TIME.

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