Wednesday's News & Ideas - 7/10/2019
- The liberal Christian voter
- Church vs. oil pipeline
- Christian books on heaven
- Uighur children separated
- CA private schools losing students
- Echoes make art
Religious liberals want to change what it means to be a Christian voter
PBS: In Iowa, a starting assumption is that the Democratic faithful are majority Christian.
A church is fighting back against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Christian Century: Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Virginia and their neighbors in Union Hill are on the front lines of the climate struggle.
“I did not die. I did not go to heaven.”
Slate: How the controversy around a Christian bestseller engulfed the evangelical publishing industry -- and tore a family apart.
‘Unmatched wickedness’: Reports allege child separation, organ harvesting against China’s Muslims
Religion News Service: The extensive BBC investigation has found that more than 400 Uighur children in a single township have lost both their parents to prison or China’s vast network of internment camps.
Associated Press: Christian family details crackdown on church in China
Fewer students attending private, religious schools in California. Here’s why.
The Sacramento Bee: The number of California students enrolled in private schools has fallen by nearly 25 percent since 2000 -- dragged down by a significant drop in students attending religious schools.
The Spark
Echoes on the internet
In a series of letters at The Spectacle, Eve L. Ewing and Hanif Abdurraqib reflect on what it means to be two halves of a poetry collective -- to make art with, for, and alongside others.
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