Wednesday's News & Ideas - 9/18/2019

Parenting after faith shift, progressive Christians look for new resources
Religion News Service: Some progressive parents want to raise their children with a different view of God and the Bible than the one they grew up with. The problem? Christian children’s resources almost all skew conservative.

Renowned journalist Cokie Roberts, lifelong Catholic, dies at age 75
Crux: The broadcast journalist and political commentator who spoke publicly about her Catholic faith and her admiration for the Sacred Heart sisters who taught her died Sept. 17.
NPR: ‘The personification of human decency’: Nina Totenberg remembers Cokie Roberts

Latter-day Saints leader reaffirms religion’s opposition to gay marriage
NBC: In a speech at Brigham Young University, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said same-sex marriage is against God’s law.
Deseret News: At BYU devotional, church president details ‘love and laws of God’ in description of 2015 and 2019 LGBT policy announcements

Should college students get a break for religious holidays? One state says yes.
Religion & Politics: Muslim and Jewish activists successfully lobbied for the passage of a law that requires all private and public colleges in the state of Washington to “reasonably accommodate” students for religious reasons, including observance of a holiday.

How this Kirk Franklin song revolutionized gospel music
HuffPost: 21 years ago, Kirk Franklin released a single that forever changed my relationship with gospel, Christianity and social justice.

The Spark

Narrative in the anthropocene is the enemy
Stories won’t save you from ecological destruction writes Roy Scranton at Literary Hub.

Want to get News & Ideas in your inbox every weekday?
Subscribe to our News & Ideas newsletter or receive our RSS feed in your RSS reader.