Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

Happy Fastball Hitters Day!

 

This really was a well-done article.

 

There’s definitely an echo in here.

 

I hadn’t seen any posts since Easter in this thread. Sorry if I repeated someone I have blocked.

 

While I never attended his church, the pastor in this story is a friend of mine. Our little city lost a good one, thanks to the whackjobs in his church.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/us/arkansas-pastor-evangelical-churches.html

 

Different thread, and I think the second d_b today.

 

I don't much truck with organized religion, but I agree with this:

 

This sounds arcane, but actually comes as a great relief to me. The UMC isn’t going to let entire conferences defect en masse, which would then put the burden on individual congregations to get a 60 percent vote of members to get back into the denomination.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...-leaving-denomination-amid-schism/9720610002/

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/reli...wish-outperform-christian-girls-academically/

A new study suggests the examples of these Jewish women — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen and many others like them — have made a deep impression.
The study, published in the latest edition of the American Sociological Review, finds that girls with a Jewish upbringing are 23 percent more likely to graduate college, and to graduate from much more selective colleges, than girls with a Christian upbringing. (The study included comparisons with Protestants, mostly evangelicals.)
These girls, the study found, have ambitious career goals and prioritize their professional success over marriage and motherhood. The girls in the study were all reared in liberal Jewish movements that make up the vast majority of American Jewish life; none was Orthodox.
“Whereas Jewish upbringing promoted self-concepts centered on meaningful careers and public impact, non-Jewish upbringing promoted self-concepts centered on marriage and motherhood,” wrote the study’s four authors, led by Tulane University sociologist Ilana Horwitz.

 

Interesting comparison with Evangelicals. Not exactly the kind of crowd that embraces education.