Wednesday's News & Ideas - 5/19/2021
- Moore moves to Christianity Today
- Lifeway downsizes again
- Homeless organizing to survive
- Testimonies from Nazi death marches
- Church training accused of abuse
- We will never be the same
Russell Moore, Baptist ethicist and Trump critic, to leave ERLC for Christianity Today
Religion News Service: Moore’s work as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm was overshadowed by the Trump presidency.
Lifeway sells its three-year-old office building to downsize again
Baptist News Global: Lifeway Christian Resources announced the sale of its three-year-old office building in downtown Nashville for $95 million and its plans to move to a downsized space reflective of its transition to a nimble and remote workforce.
Homeless people get organized -- and radical*
Christian Century: In Tacoma, Minneapolis, and elsewhere, people without housing have taken over buildings.
First-hand stories shed new light on Nazi death marches
The Guardian: Wiener Holocaust Library in London has gathered testimonies and photographs of forced evacuations at end of the Second World War.
This church program is accused of abusing teens with extreme ‘boot camps,’ ‘fight nights’ and shame
NBC News: The program promised to turn participants -- referred to as interns -- into minister material while providing them with marketable skills like media production.
The Spark
My patients will not be the same. None of us will.
Even as the C.D.C. lifts its recommendations on masks for vaccinated Americans, paving the way for a return to “normalcy,” we need to look back* to move forward, says a pulmonary and critical-care physician at The New York Times.
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