1. Evangelicals Ignore GOP by Embracing Refugees
It shouldn’t be shocking news that many so-called evangelical leaders do not represent many in their faith communities when it comes to welcoming those in need.
2. Teaching Purity Culture in Public Schools
“The [Midland, Texas] Life Center now touches nearly every part of citizens’ reproductive lives. It instructs public-school kids in sexual mores, intervenes when panicked women find out they’re pregnant, and leads young moms in the ways of Christ-focused parenting. It even functions as a safety net of sorts, doling out baby clothes and diapers to teen moms. In these twin, deep-red desert cities, the Life Center is the state, in many ways, and the state backs the Life Center.”
3. Tim Gunn: Designers Refuse to Make Clothes to Fit American women. It’s a Disgrace.
Hey, y’all. The average American woman wears a size 14.
4. More Sport Stars Join Colin Kaepernik in National Anthem Protest
“This is our only platform, you know, to really be heard. And I feel like a lot of times people want us to just shut up and entertain them, you know, shut up and play football. But we have voices…”
5. Dear Mark Zuckerberg: I Will Not Comply With Your Requirement to Remove This Image
“The media have a responsibility to consider publication in every single case. This may be a heavy responsibility. Each editor must weigh the pros and cons. This right and duty, which all editors in the world have, should not be undermined by algorithms encoded in your office in California.”
6. We All Should Be Watching ‘Atlanta’
Donald Glover said he created his new FX series in part because he “wanted to show white people, you don’t know everything about black culture.”
7. How an End-Times Cult That Believes Cats Are Divine Beings Ended Up in Nashville
Apocalypse meow—
8. Apple Says It Took ‘Courage’ to Remove the Headphone Jack from iPhone
Will wearing AirPods in public induce a shame equivalent to Google Glass?
9. No Justice, No Peeps: 400 Workers at Marshmallow Plant Go on Strike
Employees at the Pennsylvania plant have been working under an expired contract since June.
10. Baptist Pastors Oppose Franklin Graham’s Crusade in Canada
“Given that the express goal of this event is evangelism, with the commitment of new believers to Christ, we do not believe that Rev. Graham, with his expressed broader belief system, should be the exemplar that impresses itself upon these new believers.”
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