Wednesday's News & Ideas - 5/1/2024
- The overlooked religious middle
- Children & liberation theology
- Christian peacemakers
- Catholics & abortion rights
- Leaders appeal to Congress
- Palestinian Gandhi
Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle
Religion News Service: The overlooked religious middle is poised to play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential contest.
Where are the children in liberation theologies?*
The Christian Century: Child advocate R. L. Stollar seeks to help people read the Bible in ways that protect and honor children.
From the sidelines, some Christians in US strive to be peacemakers as Israel-Hamas war continues
USA Today: While some among the nation’s approximately 210 million Christians strongly support one side or the other, many see themselves caught in the middle as the war strains interfaith relations.
For many Missouri Catholics, abortion rights means choosing between faith, politics
NPR: Despite Catholic leadership’s firm anti-abortion position in recent decades, research shows that across the U.S., a majority of Catholics supports abortion rights.
75 Christian leaders urge president, Congress, churches to act on racism, poverty
Religion News Service: “Issues related to racism are now being fiercely debated across the country, and many people of color are fearful that racism is getting worse,” reads their statement.
The Spark
‘Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?’
Issa Amro,* who has been arrested and beaten for simple acts of defiance, is trying to pursue nonviolent resistance in the West Bank at a time when violence has become inescapable, The New York Times says.
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