Postcards: As nature shifts, climate change forces rewrite of US conservation strategy
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that as a warming planet alters natural systems, traditional practices of conserving parks and wildlife refuges are being forced to shift as well…
From $US500,000 to $US785, in the US state of Maryland Episcopal churches commit to reparations
RNS A historic Episcopal church in Baltimore has committed to setting aside $US100,000 to reparations, an initiative that will contribute to local racial justice causes. Memorial Episcopal Church also pledged to contribute an additional $US400,000 for reparations and justice over five years. “Our church has a long history of, unfortunately, supporting racial segregation up until […]
ESSAY: THE US SUPREME COURT MADE THE BLADENSBURG CROSS A SPECIAL CASE. LET’S KEEP IT THAT WAY
In an article first published on Religion News Service, AMANDA TYLER, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, comments on last week’s decision concerning a war memorial known as the Bladensburg Cross…
ESSAY: US STATE OF MARYLAND HAS CREATED A TRUTH COMMISSION ON LYNCHINGS – CAN IT DELIVER?
In an article first published on The Conversation, KELEBOGILE ZVOBGO, of the University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, looks at the recent establishment of a commission to investigate the lynchings of at least 40 African Americans in the US state of Maryland…
RELIGION OR REMEMBRANCE?: SUPREME COURT MULL CROSS-SHAPED WAR MEMORIAL
ADELLE M BANKS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports from the US on the fight over a cross-shaped war memorial and its wider ramifications in the US…
STRANGESIGHTS: SEND YOUR NAME TO THE SUN; CHURCH GIVES AWAY CARS; AND, UK CHEESE FESTIVAL RUNS OUT OF…CHEESE…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
US: ‘Peace Cross’ is unconstitutional, court rules
RNS Peace Cross, Bladensburg, Md. PICTURE: Wikimedia Commons An old, rugged cross that has stood on public land in a Washington, DC, suburb for almost a century has been deemed unconstitutional by a federal court. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the so-called Peace Cross violates the establishment clause of the […]