Wednesday's News & Ideas - 2/3/2021

SBC report calls never-Trumper Russell Moore’s agency a ‘significant distraction’
Religion News Service: A new report claims a decline in giving is linked to controversial statements -- including criticism of Trump -- by a leading Baptist ethicist.

Refugee resettlement expected to rebound, but the pipeline is broken
Baptist News Global: Repairing the global damage done by the Trump administration to refugee resettlement work will take time but will happen, according a panel of evangelical Christians deeply involved in such work.

State agency bungles ballot referendum for child sex victims
Associated Press: Some victims of child sexual abuse might have to wait two years or more to pursue legal claims because of a major bureaucratic bungle that prompted angry denunciations across the political spectrum Monday and the resignation of Pennsylvania’s top state elections official.

As Poland’s Church embraces politics, Catholics depart
Reuters: In November, after the country’s courts decreed a clampdown on abortion that the bishops had lobbied for, Katarzyna Lipka filed papers to cut loose.

A Baltimore pastor, preaching about vaccines to the Black community, emphasizes personal agency
STAT: The Baltimore pastor -- who has also worked for 30 years in federal and other public health programs -- has been using his remote pulpit for almost a year to preach about the power and safety of vaccines.

The Spark

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?
Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists* should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal -- even if that means destroying their discipline.

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