Wednesday's News & Ideas - 8/14/2019
- #JewsAgainstICE
- Draft of UMC separation
- Election faith outreach
- Bibles escape trade war
- Prejean memoir
- Hendrix’s national anthem
‘#JewsAgainstICE’ is transforming the Jewish community, returning us to our diasporic roots
Forward: A uniquely Jewish diasporic lens on forced migration and uprooting marks a key shift in diasporic Jewish political organizing.
Group drafts separation plan for denomination
United Methodist News Service: The United Methodist Church’s conflict over homosexuality is irreconcilable and calls for amicable separation into different denominations, according to a 12-person group of centrists, traditionalists and progressives.
Pete Buttigieg hires the first faith outreach director of the 2020 campaign
Washington Post: The Democratic mayor of South Bend, Ind., is the first 2020 presidential candidate to hire someone for such a position.
Bibles escape Trump’s tariff fight with China
Christianity Today: The news came as a relief to Christian publishers in the US, who warned this summer that the “Bible tax” would make some translations too costly to produce.
Sister Helen Prejean explains it all for you
New York Times: At 80, she is publishing a memoir about her social activism.
The Spark
Fifty years ago, Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock anthem expressed the hopes and fears of a nation
Hendrix’s rendition of the national anthem at Woodstock fused protest horror with patriotism and hope, The Conversation says.
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