RNS Updated Budget — Monday, August 3, 2020

A historic New York City church has decided to devote $200,000 — about a tenth of its budget — to provide housing assistance and youth anti-racism training. By Adelle M. Banks. 450 words. (category: a) NEWS STORY RNS-Harvest-Crusade: Harvest Crusade, […]

NEWS STORY
RNS-Church-Reparations: New York church plans ‘reparations’ with housing help, anti-racism training
(RNS) — A historic New York City church has decided to devote $200,000 — about a tenth of its budget — to provide housing assistance and youth anti-racism training. By Adelle M. Banks. 450 words. (category: a)

NEWS STORY
RNS-Harvest-Crusade: Harvest Crusade, a staple event at Angel Stadium, is morphing into a cinematic experience
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Every year in August, tens of thousands of people fill the seats of Angel Stadium in Anaheim, not for baseball, but for the weekend-long Harvest Crusade. This year, amid a global pandemic, Harvest Crusade will be different. Instead of the in-person stadium event, Harvest ministries will stream a cinematic crusade titled “A Rush of Hope,” a film that will be released on Labor Day weekend. By Alejandra Molina. 945 words. (category: a)

NEWS STORY
RNS-Graham-Statue: Billy Graham’s likeness to be cast in bronze at US Capitol
(RNS) — A life-sized statue of the Rev. Billy Graham will be installed in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall sometime next year, replacing a statue of a white supremacist that both the state of the North Carolina and the U.S. House want removed. By Yonat Shimron. 600 words. (category: a)


COMMENTARY
RNS-Wallis-Oped: Reopening schools for all the wrong reasons
(RNS) — Just like he turned mask-wearing into a political litmus test, Donald Trump is using our children’s futures as a political tactic to try to put the pandemic behind us, get the economy going again and help him win reelection. By Jim Wallis. 1,330 words. (category: k)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Klein-Oped: What good is faith when your fertility treatments aren’t working?
(RNS) — If you’re a person of faith, you might discover ways in which your belief system or your worship community provides you strength. You might also find they present some particular challenges. By Amy Klein. 1,450 words. (category: k)