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Wednesday's News & Ideas - 4/17/2024 apm47@duke.edu Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:58
UMC post-split data
Abyssinian Baptist pastor search
Undocumented immigrant labor
USC cancels speech
Sacred and just coffee
Running with shelter dogs
After traditionalist churches left, UMC may be more — not less — diverse
Religion News Service: Even after the departures, 24% of North Carolina clergy remaining in the denomination disagree with allowing LGBTQ people to get married and ordained within the denomination.
Prominent New York church, sued for gender bias, moves forward with male pastor candidate
Associa ..read more
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Tuesday's News & Ideas - 4/16/2024 apm47@duke.edu Tue, 04/16/2024 - 09:27
Terrorist attack in Australia
Latino churches provide services
Pastors leaving over conflict
Detroit seminarians to unplug
Democrats and Black churches
Saving a pastry and community
Australia says Assyrian church stabbing was terrorist act
Reuters: Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country reeled from a second stabbing incident in three days.
Latino churches are social serv ..read more
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Monday's News & Ideas - 4/15/2024 cjk41@duke.edu Mon, 04/15/2024 - 09:54
Chuck Swindoll steps down
Forgoing Eid celebrations for Gaza
Episcopal seminary’s property woes
Youth mental health crisis
Orthodox church in Florida
Magazine from high-security prison
Chuck Swindoll steps down as senior pastor, but won’t retire*
Christianity Today: At 89 years old and more than 60 years into ministry, the Stonebriar Community Church founder plans to remain its primary preacher after the church names his successor.
Palestinians forgo Eid celebrations to mourn for Gaza
NPR: Many in Rafah were holding ..read more
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At DaySpring Baptist Church, less is more cjk41@duke.edu Thu, 04/11/2024 - 15:16 ..read more
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J. Dana Trent: There is always a path home apm47@duke.edu Wed, 04/10/2024 - 15:46 ..read more
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Friday's News & Ideas - 4/12/2023 cjk41@duke.edu Fri, 04/12/2024 - 10:55
Majority of US Catholics favor abortion rights
Shooting at Philadelphia Eid event
Arab Jews
Ten years since Boko Haram kidnapping
Men charged in Brooklyn tunnels fight
Mapping access to nature
6 in 10 U.S. Catholics are in favor of abortion rights, Pew Research report finds
NPR: Catholics in the U.S., one of the country's largest single Christian groups, hold far more diverse views on abortion rights than the official teaching of their church.
3 shot and 5 in custody after gunfire disrupts Philadelphia Eid event, po ..read more
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Anna Mitchael apm47@duke.edu Thu, 04/11/2024 - 13:04
Anna Mitchael is an author, New York Times bestselling ghostwriter and seminary student based in central Texas. Her newest book, “They Will Tell You the World Is Yours,” is scheduled for publication by Convergent in 2025. For more of her writing, visit annamitchael.com.
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Faith and Leadership
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Thursday's News & Ideas - 4/11/2024 egl22@duke.edu Thu, 04/11/2024 - 11:54
UMC upheaval adds pressure to staff
‘Clash of the patriarchs’
Debate over ‘Christian America’
Eid al-Fitr celebrations
How might God bless a divided America?
What exactly is an ‘April shower’?
The United Methodist Church is facing upheaval. These staff are helping prepare for the future*
The Tennessean: Thousands of churches exiting the United Methodist Church have strained budgets and placed greater political pressure on bishops who’ve increasingly taken on additional duties. This instability has meant the work f ..read more
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Environmental justice apm47@duke.edu Wed, 04/10/2024 - 13:49 From the archives
Moving beyond creation care to address environmental justice
Dan Holly
Catherine Coleman Flowers: Environmental justice means giving poor people a voice
Ambrose Carroll: Talking about the environment in the Black church is empowerment
Coley Springs Missionary Baptist Church works for the environment and for community well-being
Dan Holly ..read more
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Creation care apm47@duke.edu Wed, 04/10/2024 - 13:44 From the archives
‘King Coal’ reminds us of power’s perils
Zack Harold
The spiritual power of vineyards
Andrew J. Skerritt
Green funerals are one way for Christian leaders to promote creation care
Sequola Collins
Brandon Dennison: ‘People, planet, profit, in that order’
Zack Harold ..read more