NEWS STORY
RNS-Muslim-Caucus: Sanders wins endorsement from Muslim group, Iowa’s only Muslim legislator
(RNS) – The Vermont senator received an endorsement from Muslim Caucus in America and its advisory committee member Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, a Des Moines native. By Aysha Khan. 850 words. (category: a)
NEWS STORY
RNS-Trent-Death: J. Dana Trent is on a mission to discuss death with the post-Millennial generation
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — J. Dana Trent, an author, minister and teacher, is eager to reframe discussions of mortality for the post-Millennial generation. Her latest book, “Dessert First: Preparing for Death While Savoring Life,” describes the year Trent spent as a chaplain at the University of North Carolina Hospitals’ intensive care unit and how she used what she learned to care for her mother a few years later. Now she’s researching how Gen Z understands the collective fate of humankind. By Yonat Shimron 1,300 words. (category: a)
NEWS STORY
RNS-Ortberg-Leave: Pastor John Ortberg allowed volunteer who was attracted to minors to work with children
(RNS) — John Ortberg, a popular evangelical author and megachurch pastor, betrayed a “bond of trust” by allowing a church volunteer who admitted being attracted to minors to still work with children, according to a statement from the elders at the Bay Area church he leads. The church’s statement did not name the third party who brought Ortberg’s actions to the church’s attention. On Sunday (Feb. 2.), Daniel Lavery, Ortberg’s estranged son, posted a message on Twitter saying he and his wife had reported the pastor. By Bob Smietana. 841 words. (category: a)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Silk-Oped: Impeachment and the decline of constitutional faith
(RNS) — In the language of both Democrats and Republicans, the Constitution is not the sacred document it used to be. It looks like the two major parties may be prepared to at least to admit that their faith in our founding document is no longer whole and complete. By Mark Silk. 914 words. (category: k)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Crook-Oped: Learning trust in the sharing economy
(RNS) — We can credit the internet with fostering a certain kind of trust, through the growth of the sharing economy. While the debate rages on whether this so-called gig economy is undermining secure jobs by replacing them with an army of mercenary, part-time workers, it has opened up new avenues of trust and camaraderie between citizens as they become customer and client. By Christina Crook. 1,218 words. (category: k)
