Wednesday's News & Ideas - 3/16/2022

Sexual harassment went unchecked at Christianity Today
Christianity Today: Women reported two top leaders’ inappropriate behavior for more than 12 years. Nothing happened.

Thousands of churches close every year. What will happen to their buildings?
Religion News Service: As congregations shrink and close, church leaders must decide whether to give their buildings a second life.

The rise and fall of evangelical influencers
Religion & Politics: Believers now turn to digital media for religious engagement, potentially changing evangelicalism at its core and raising the question: What else are these women influencing?

After 30 years, the NRSV gets an update: Here’s what that means
Baptist News Global: Friendship Press, the National Council of Churches and the Society for Biblical Literature assembled a team of dozens of scholars to undertake the first update of the New Revised Standard Version in 30 years.

Six unintentionally perfect songs for Lent
Sojourners: Lent is the angstiest season of the liturgical calendar: Jesus in the desert with the devil; us sitting with our sin and mortality. So here you’ll find six songs to accompany you this brooding, contemplative season.

The Spark

How it felt to have my novel stolen
On the verge of selling his first book, Peter C. Baker was scammed by a manuscript thief.* His deepest insecurities about wanting to be a writer came rushing to the surface, he says in The New Yorker.

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