Articles of interest about religion - Dec 15

***THE VIRUS 

A variety of eye issues can sometimes indicate an early coronavirus infection

FireEye confirms SolarWinds supply chain attack

The coronavirus vaccine rollout will be messy. People will have to deal with that.

Infected after 5 minutes, from 20 feet away: South Korea study shows COVID-19's spread indoors

COVID-19 Vaccine's Side Effects Could Complicate Efforts To Vaccinate Health Workers

Overloaded Hospitals Ask COVID-19 Patients With Milder Symptoms To Get Home Treatment

Covid is having a devastating impact on children — and the vaccine won't fix everything

***RELIGION & THE VIRUS

Some workers say religious beliefs bar them from getting vaccinated

What NIH chief Francis Collins wants religious leaders to know about the coronavirus vaccines

Dave Ramsey, Christian personal finance guru, defies COVID-19 to keep staff at desks

Caterers at Dave Ramsey's holiday party told not to wear masks, complaint says

Recent Supreme Court Rulings Encourage Some To Continue In-Person Worshiping

Televangelist Pat Robertson Says God Will Intervene in Overturning Election Results

***RELIGION  

What is an "Evangelical?" (video) (opinion)  

Christianity Today’s 2021 Book Awards

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Church vandalism exposes divisions over faith and politics

Pro-Trump Protesters Burn BLM Banners Outside Four Historic DC Churches

Evangelical leader Beth Moore trends on Twitter after calling Trumpism ‘seductive and dangerous’

Biden's Catholic faith will be on full display as the first churchgoing president in decades 

In the Attacks on Raphael Warnock’s Preaching, One Old American Tradition Meets Another

Religious right eyes Biden warily after Trump’s good favor

***RELIGION & THE LAW 

The Supreme Court Rejects Opportunity to Roll Back Marriage Equality

Critics Say New Trump Rule Gives Contractors More Freedom On Religious Discrimination

Trump eases rules for religious social service providers

The Supreme Court Is Colliding With a Less-Religious America

Megachurch leader raped girl more than 4 decades ago, lawsuit alleges

***RELIGION & RACIAL ISSUES

All six Southern Baptist seminary presidents have released a joint statement declaring that Critical Race Theory is incompatible" with the denomination's statement of faith 

Chicago Church Leads The Way As It Grapples With Race

More US churches commit to racism-linked reparations

***METHODISTS 

Progressive group launches new Methodist denomination

‘Black Lives Matter’ nativity scene draws attention at Claremont Unified Methodist Church

***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS  

Black Southern Baptists weigh in on critical race theory critique by officials

Texas church leaves SBC amid scrutiny of pastor's 'outrageous' prior conduct

***CATHOLIC 

DOJ probe of Catholic church abuse goes quiet 2 years late

Catholic parishioners gave more money to churches that went online during quarantine than to those that did not ($)

Federal Executions Pit The Trump Administration Against The Catholic Church

***GREEK ORTHODOX

Greek Orthodox Church rules yoga is 'incompatible' with Christianity

***MEGACHURCHES 

Megachurch promises to change after Missouri official slams ‘irresponsible’ services

Selena Gomez reportedly quits Hillsong following pastor Carl Lentz's affair

Houston Chronicle Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church got $4.4 million in federal PPP loans

California megachurch says it has a 'biblical mandate' to meet after Supreme Court decision

Hillsong founder responds to megachurch homophobia claims

***MUSLIMS

California has appointed its first ever Muslim chaplain to the state legislature 

Justices rule Muslim men can sue FBI agents over no-fly list

Bangladesh Begins Moving Displaced Rohingya Muslims To Remote Island

***RELIGION IN CHINA

Uighurs forced to eat pork as China expands Xinjiang pig farms

China’s Greatest Evangelist Was Expelled from a Liberal Seminary in America

***SEXUAL ISSUES   

Scientific journal purges conversion therapy paper published in 1951 

As an Intersex Child, I Was Told I Didn’t Exist