Wednesday's News & Ideas - 6/19/2019
- Clergy housing case dropped
- Charitable giving down
- Carbon-negative abbey
- Sexism said to female pastors
- Mexican migrant shelters
- Juneteenth
Atheist watchdog drops fight to halt clergy housing allowance
Religion News Service: The Freedom From Religion Foundation has dropped its long-running fight against the clergy housing allowance permitted by the U.S. government.
Amid broad drop in charitable donations, giving to God down $3 billion last year
Religion News Service: Charitable giving by individual Americans in 2018 suffered its biggest drop since the Great Recession of 2008-09.
This 1,200-year-old Benedictine monastery has been ‘carbon-negative’ for 20 years
America: The Bavarian abbey is not only Europe’s first carbon-neutral monastery, it has actually been carbon negative for nearly 20 years now.
Male pastors read sexist comments people made to their female colleagues
HuffPost: The male United Methodist Church pastors said they felt “furious” and “ashamed” after reading the misogyny female pastors deal with.
Catholic shelter operators in Mexico: ‘We live off people’s solidarity’
Crux: The controversy over migrant funding follows Mexico striking a deal with the United States in early June to avoid escalating tariffs on its exports by increasing military presence and slowing the flow of migrants.
The Spark
Balancing the ledger on Juneteenth
The debate over reparations highlights the dual purpose of the holiday, writes Vann Newkirk II at The Atlantic: celebrating emancipation but also demanding accountability for historical and present wrongs.
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