Wednesday's News & Ideas - 8/19/2020
- Notre Dame halts in-person classes
- Rowan Williams on education
- Oversimplified Christianity
- Budde’s DNC speech
- Churches try to help schools
- Catastrophe & godliness
8 days into semester, Notre Dame halts in-person classes as 146 students get coronavirus
NBC News: “The virus is a formidable foe,” Notre Dame's president said. Also on Tuesday, Michigan State University suspended plans for in-person classes on campus.
Rowan Williams: Theological education is for everyone
Christianity Today: To do theology is to rediscover the strangeness of the Christian framework.
The heresy of oversimplified Christianity
National Catholic Reporter: Whereas this false Christianity promotes “either/or” approaches to faith and morals, true Christianity has always been a “both/and” tradition.
Bishop Mariann Budde appeals to ‘better angels’ in Democratic convention prayer
Religion News Service: The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde focused her prayer before the Democratic National Convention Tuesday evening (Aug. 18) on a Christian appeal to grace.
Churches want to help schools but aren’t sure what’s best this year
Baptist News Global: The coronavirus is forcing public schools to rethink how they will educate students this fall which, in turn, is forcing churches to rethink how they will minister to neighborhood schools.
The Spark
Catastrophe is next to godliness
“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe.” A poem* by Franny Choi at The Atlantic.
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