Wednesday's News & Ideas - 2/28/2024
- Alabama judge’s far-right ties
- Faith leaders & Texas death row case
- Baylor honors Brittney Griner
- Manhattan seminary’s Skyspace
- Pentecostals laboring in the field
- Why leap years exist
Alabama justice’s ties with far-right Christian movement raise concern
NPR: In the days since Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered “extrauterine children,” the involvement of that court’s chief justice with a once-fringe Christian Nationalist movement has come under renewed scrutiny.
The Washington Post: Alabama judge says God opposes IVF. Religions hold varied views.*
Faith leaders urge Texas to reconsider death penalty case
Sojourners: With few avenues of appeal left, a coalition of faith leaders, family members and true crime podcast listeners say evidence that could prove Ivan Cantu’s innocence deserves to be heard by a court.
Three cheers for Baylor honoring Brittney Griner, but the game is not yet won
Baptist News Global: “The celebration for Griner is a three-point basket at the close of the half. It is not the game winner or the game changer.”
In the elite world of private schools, a James Turrell Skyspace gets an A.*
The New York Times: On the sixth floor of Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan, Turrell, the internationally acclaimed artist who uses light to shape space, has created one of his perception-altering meeting rooms whose roof opens to the sky.
Pentecostals laboring in the field*
The Christian Century: Lloyd Barba shows how Mexican farmworkers established a viable life in the face of California’s industrial agriculture machine.
The Spark
Why leap years exist, explained in one simple animation
There are 365.2422 days for every Earth orbit around the sun, says Vox. Annoying!
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