Wednesday's News & Ideas - 7/14/2021
- West leaves Harvard
- Gordon Conwell protest
- Nuanced history of abortion
- Myth of ‘redemptive justice’
- Denhollander on SBC task force
- “Jane Eyre” as sacred text
Cornel West has announced he’s leaving Harvard and says the school has lost its way
NPR: Cornel West, one of the nation’s foremost Black scholars and an outspoken progressive activist, has announced his resignation from Harvard University, accusing the school of “intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep depths.”
Gordon Conwell seminary alumni and staff protest loss of Black professor
Religion News Service: “We understand that these are times of tight finances, but as Scripture says that where our treasure is, there our heart will be also,” wrote his supporters.
Christian attitudes surrounding abortion have a more nuanced history than current events suggest
The Conversation: Such challenges to abortion in the United States are often fueled by the belief of many Christians that abortion and Christianity are incompatible.
God does not will Black people to die for justice
Sojourners: There is a myth of “redemptive justice” through anti-Black violence — a narrative that requires the suffering of those pushed to the margins.
Litton names task force to study sexual abuse handling in SBC, including a critic of past actions as an adviser
Baptist News Global: Rachael Denhollander has been named a special adviser to the seven-member task force mandated by messengers to this summer’s SBC annual meeting.
The Spark
Reading “Jane Eyre” as a sacred text
At The Paris Review, Vanessa Zoltan writes that she carried around a Bible one busy summer while serving as a chaplain. That Bible was Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre.”
