Wednesday's News & Ideas - 3/30/2022
- Preventing General Conference delays
- Pope meets boarding school survivors
- Ketanji Brown Jackson’s public faith
- Navy & religious vaccine refusers
- ‘Know Your Mothers’ icons, app
- The unbearable whiteness of coffee
Effort aims to stop General Conference delays
United Methodist News: General Conference organizers are looking at strategies to prevent further delays of The United Methodist Church’s top lawmaking assembly beyond 2024.
Pope meets with groups requesting apology for Indigenous schools*
The New York Times: For the first time, Francis received Indigenous survivors of abusive boarding schools in Canada who were seeking the pontiff’s apology over the church’s role in running the schools.
The constitutional roots of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s public faith
Religion & Politics: Jackson’s public declarations of faith in God prior to her hearing stand squarely within a historical tradition of the nation’s civic religion present since the nation’s founding.
Navy barred from acting against religious vaccine refusers
Associated Press: A federal judge in Texas is barring the Navy from taking action for now against sailors who have objected to being vaccinated against COVID-19 on religious grounds.
Cara Quinn wants Christians to get to know the mothers of their faith
Religion News Service: Her curiosity about the women of the Bible and early Christian history led Quinn to launch a series of icons, then an app and — coming Easter Sunday — a church.
The Spark
The unbearable whiteness of coffee
A slew of Black-owned coffee companies* are reclaiming American coffee culture using design and branding that tells a rich story of Black history, says Fast Company.
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