Wednesday's News & Ideas - 3/4/2020

The 50-year fight by radical evangelicals that could end US abortion rights
The Guardian: Today the oral arguments begin in a landmark case that could destroy abortion rights in the US -- the end result of a long campaign by evangelical Christians.

The long-term vision of the Christian nationalist movement
Sojourners: Instead of collapsing Christian nationalists to single issues like abortion or gay marriage, Katherine Stewart claims that it is an anti-democratic political movement with deep roots in a Christian opposition to civil rights, the New Deal, and abolition.

Pete Buttigieg’s candidacy meant a lot to LGBTQ Christians like me
Vox: He showed Americans that sexuality, gender identity, and faith weren’t mutually exclusive.

Father Ernesto Cardenal, poet and revolutionary, dies in Nicaragua*
America: Father Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary whose political work earned him a public admonishment from St. John Paul II, died March 1.

JD Greear, Omar Suleiman to discuss Christian-Muslim relations at NC college
Religion News Service: This week more than 500 evangelical students will hear Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear and Yaqeen Institute founder Imam Omar Suleiman discuss how evangelicals and Muslims can find a way forward.

The Spark

Freeman Dyson’s quest for eternal life
The legendary physicist, who died Friday, envisioned an advanced consciousness* encoded into matter, surviving the death of the last star.

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