Wednesday's News & Ideas - 1/23/2019
- Covington & our divided culture
- Less religious, less generous U.S.
- We're all evangelicals
- The bad place
- Two sanctuary churches
- Priest of Abu Ghraib
A teachable moment
Commonweal: Covington, privilege, and our divided culture.
Religion News Service: Native American man from viral video offers to meet with Catholic students, leaders
A less religious America will be a less generous America
The Boston Globe: If religion in this country is going down, charitable giving and volunteering are likely to go down, too.
We are all evangelicals now
Religion & Politics: Evangelicals exemplify current trends in American political life around race and difference, only in a more intense way. Evangelicals embody U.S. racial attitudes on steroids.
How the idea of Hell has shaped the way we think
The New Yorker: For centuries, we've given lavish attention to the specifics of punishment, and left Heaven woefully under-sketched.
A tale of two sanctuary churches: Congregants in Ohio and the Netherlands find 'instant connection'
PRI: When a Columbus, Ohio, church heard about a Netherlands congregation's efforts to shelter an Armenian family facing deportation, it sounded familiar.
The Spark
The priest of Abu Ghraib
As Smithsonian magazine reports, inside Iraq's most notorious prison, an Army interrogator came face to face with a shocking truth about the war -- and himself.
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