Wednesday's News & Ideas - 4/20/2022
- Ukrainian pacifists in war
- NJ Catholic abuse settlement
- Pastors flipping properties
- Pentecostal Christianity’s rise
- Washington’s LDS temple
- Seeing rare ocean creatures
Parsing pacifism: Ukraine’s Mennonite heritage shapes evangelical responses to Russia
Christianity Today: Anabaptists shaped the Slavic revival. The Sermon on the Mount encouraged endurance under Soviet persecution. But how does nonviolence work in a war?
N.J. Catholic diocese agrees to $87.5M deal to settle clergy sex abuse suits
Associated Press: The alleged sexual abuse occurred from the 1950s into the 1990s, an attorney said.
The great church property flip: Florida pastors seek salvation in real estate
The Guardian: As membership plummets, church leaders are looking for new ways to make ends meet. Some congregants say they’re selling out.
‘How Pentecostal Christianity is taking over the world’: An interview with author Elle Hardy
Religion Dispatches: Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK publisher, didn’t receive a tremendous amount of attention in the United States — one of the nations where the movement itself has flourished.
Renovations complete, Washington’s LDS temple provides rare public glimpse inside
Religion News Service: ‘It’s a conduit for heaven for a lot of us,' said a church member, ‘where we believe that’s where we can commune with God here on earth.’
The Spark
How to see rare creatures in the dark ocean depths
A marine biologist built a camera “eye” that’s collected images of some of the most elusive deep sea animals, Vox says.
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