Apologies for the truncated nature of today’s Roundup, due to technical glitches. Those geniuses at the Apple Store Genius Bar may not have been quite so smart after all. Sigh.
(Special props to Yonat Shimron and Cathy Lynn Grossman for helping to rescue today’s Roundup.)
And with that, here’s what’s going on out there:
TORTURE
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s “Torture Report,” the 500-page report which summarizes a 6,700 page classified report, was released Tuesday. Commonweal says the most alarming findings is that a minimum of 20 percent of tortured detainees were wrongly detained, some in blatant cases of mistaken identity. Meanwhile, President Obama avoids taking sides in the effectives of the CIA’s techniques. Vox has the gory details.
AT HOME
Billy Graham, Louis Zamperini and the two nights in 1949 that changed their lives (RNS)
Security stepped up at Brooklyn synagogue after stabbing (CBS New York)
Gay music director files complaint over firing by Catholics (Chicago Tribune)
For A.J. Jacobs, it’s all relative: Author plans the world’s largest family reunion (The Forward)
Missouri sets execution record with 10 in 1 year (St. Louis Public Radio)
Michael Lindsay on covenant and conflict at Gordon College (Christianity Today)
Civil rights leader Joseph Lowery recovering from surgery after falling, fracturing hip (AP)
Christian Bale says Moses could be considered a “terrorist” (AP): “If you’re not religious, you can look at it as one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist,” he said.
Named for Chuck Colson, federal panel looks to prison reform (RNS)
N.M. teacher resigns after student writes story about Jesus and marijuana (AP)
Hallmark pulls Hanukkah wrapping paper covered in swastikas (AP)
Apologists concerned with Rick Warren’s alignment with ‘Holy Father’ (Charisma)
ABROAD:
Vatican survey: How do we help people with ‘homosexual tendencies’? (RNS)
Archbishop of Canterbury: ‘There is a chance we will not hold together’ (RNS)
Polish court strikes down kosher slaughter ban (JTA)
British bishop threatens libel lawsuit over parishioner’s letter (The Telegraph)
WORTH READING:
3 religious hurdles Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’ must overcome (Jonathan Merritt)
What’s in a name? The image of God (Shane Claiborne)
How self-understanding might help us quit shouting (Tom Ehrich)