The Weekly Town Crier (11/22/19)
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Read “Howard Thurman’s contemplative nonviolence The pastor and mentor to Martin Luther King formed a vision of resistance around prayer, not politics” at Christian Century.
Read the Washington Post’s opinion piece: “Jesus isn’t interested in America’s two-party division: Sadly, many want Jesus to be the personal chaplain to a Republican emperor, or else, Jesus is invoked to sanction a Jacobin purge on anyone suspected of not progressive enough. Jesus is re-created in either the image of Caesar or Che Guevara.”
Read “Scripture and Neuroscience Agree: It Helps to Lament in Community Through song, liturgy, and communion, the body of Christ inhabits the suffering experienced by its weakest members” at Christianity Today.
Read “Christianity is declining at a rapid pace, but Americans still hold positive views about religion’s role in society” at Washington Post.
Read “What Research Tells Us About the ‘Seal’ of Believer’s Baptism A new study suggests that the rite doesn’t bind young Christians to a certain level of faith commitment, but to a faith community” at Christianity Today.
Read “Kanye West calls himself 'the greatest artist that God has ever created' at Joel Osteen service” at AZ Central.
Read “Why Black Protestants and Evangelicals Still Preach Politics” at Christianity Today.
Read “The Real Battle (Between Atheism and Christianity) Is Always Emotional” at Mockingbird: “Disproofs of God’s existence are about as effective in creating atheists as proofs are in creating believers. Such arguments are shadow boxing. The real battle is always emotional."
Read “Chick-fil-A Says It Will Stop Donating to Anti-LGBTQ Organizations” at Advocate.
Read/Listen to “'Who Is An Evangelical?' Looks At History Of Evangelical Christians And The GOP” at NPR.
Read “U.S. Adults See Evangelicals Through a Political Lens” at Barna.
Read/watch “How these Oregon teachers are fighting back against white nationalism” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Paige Patterson feared backslide after election of first black SBC president” at Religion News Service.
Read “Scott Warren, Who Provided Humanitarian Aid To Immigrants, Found Not Guilty On Harboring Charges” at Sojourners.
Read the opinion piece: “Kanye West is spreading the gospel of white evangelicals: Like other black conservatives, the rapper and designer downplays racism while promoting bootstrap virtue-signaling” at The Guardian.
Read “Michael Bloomberg apologises for 'stop-and-frisk' policy” at BBC.
Read the opinion piece: “Enough Thanksgiving Myths. Schools Should Teach Indigenous History” at TruthOut.
Read “Trump’s new refugee limits are senseless and destructive” at Christian Century.
Read “U.S. has world's highest rate of children in detention: U.N. study” at Reuters.
Read “U.N. Expert Faults U.S. For 'Inhuman Treatment' And High Incarceration Of Children” at NPR.
Read “Bound By Statute: In Mississippi, Jim Crow era laws result in a high rate of black kids charged as adults” at Reveal.
Read “Why 1,200 people who never took a life are condemned to die in Pa. prisons” at Inquirer.
Read/Listen to “Jeffrey Epstein's Prison Guards Are Indicted On Federal Charges” at NPR.
Read “U.S. income inequality at highest level in 50 years, economic gap growing in heartland” at NBC News.
Read “Israeli PM Netanyahu indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust” at NBC News.
Read “After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople” at PBS.
Read “Our legislators’ silence is a failure of moral courage” at Christian Century.
Read/Watch “70% of Americans say Trump’s actions tied to Ukraine were wrong” at ABC.
Read “The White House Just Released A Log Of Trump's First Call with Zelenskiy: The log differs from what the White House originally said about the call in a brief readout” at NPR.
Read “Trump attacks impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch on Twitter” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Democrats invite Trump to testify in impeachment inquiry” at PBS News Hour
Read Sarah Kendzior’s opinion piece: “Why the Trump impeachment hearings need to go beyond Ukraine” at Globe and Mail.
Read “Trump ‘Will Strongly Consider’ Testifying in Impeachment Probe, as New Poll Shows 70% Disapprove of His Ukraine Actions As the president defends his actions, however, the American people seem unconvinced” at Rolling Stone.
Read “House Looking Into Whether Trump Lied to Mueller During Russia Investigation” at News and Guts.
Read “Trump’s Retribution Against the Washington Post Owner Is His Gravest Abuse of Power” at New York magazine.
Read “Chief justice orders delay in House fight for Trump financial records” at PBS News Hour.
Read “I Followed the Directions of the President’: Read Gordon Sondland’s Explosive Impeachment Testimony” at Rolling Stone.
Read/Watch “Sondland says Pence knew about concerns over the hold on military aid to Ukraine” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Trump Brags About Opening Apple Plant In Texas That’s Been Producing Computers Since 2013” at News and Guts.
Read “Roger Stone, Political Operative And Trump Aide, Guilty In False Statements Trial” at NPR.
Browse “Everyone Charged in the 2016 Election Investigations” at New York Times.
Read “Prosecutors in Giuliani investigation interested in talking to Ukrainian energy company” at CNN.
Read “Over 75 Members Of Congress To Stephen Miller: Resign From White House Now” at Huff Post.
Read/Listen to “Stephen Miller And White Supremacy: the book mentioned in Stephen Miller's leaked emails. What is it? And why is it important to white power movements?” at NPR.
Read “Stephen Miller planted anti-Rubio stories in Breitbart during 2016 campaign, leaked emails show” at NBC News.
Read “Trump Retreats From Flavor Ban for E-Cigarettes Advisers say the president pulled back from proposed restrictions intended to curb teenage vaping after he was warned of the political fallout among voters” at New York Times.
Read “Bill Barr's fascist manifesto: Is this man the real threat to American democracy?” at Salon.
Read “No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other developments means having to figure out what is true, false or spin. Many Americans are throwing up their hands and tuning it all out” at New York Times.
Read “In Major Shift, U.S. Declares West Bank Settlements Do Not Violate International Law” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Trump advisory board member: Women should strive to be “handmaidens,” stay out of the workplace Trump surrogate Clarence Mason Weaver on women: “We don’t care how smart you are. We don’t care how strong you are” at Media Matters.
Read “What ending DACA could cost the U.S. economy” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Social Security Does Not Add To The Federal Deficit” at Forbes.
Read ‘You’re Done:’ Conservative Radio Host Fired Mid-Show for Criticizing Trump “I call things as I see them,” Craig Silverman wrote” at Rolling Stone, and remember, friends, that forced patriotism is fascism.
Read “Nikki Haley Used System for Unclassified Material to Send ‘Confidential’ Information” and wonder . . . but her e-mails . . . with the rest of us at The Daily Beast.
Read “Democrats in Congress reauthorize Patriot Act, again” at Boing Boing.
Read “Whatever Happened To Reality Winner? Reality Winner’s mom, Billie J. Winner-Davis, speaks out about her daughter and the effort to #FreeRealityWinner” at Rantt Media.
Read “Democrat Edwards wins reelection in conservative Louisiana” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Pete Buttigieg and Jim Wallis Discuss Christianity in Politics” at Juicy Ecumenism.
Watch “Mayor Pete surges ahead in Iowa polling” at MSNBC.
Read “The Generous Gospel of Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks with ‘Rolling Stone’ about faith, the religious left, and what the Mike Pences of the world get wrong” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Possible pay-to-play scheme for ambassador role in Trump administration uncovered by CBS News Emails obtained by CBS News show Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the Bahamas was asked by the RNC to donate half a million dollars as his confirmation in the Senate hung in the balance” at CBS.
Read “Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018” at Yahoo Finance.
Read “Two people showed up for ‘Straight Pride’ in Dallas. Yes, two” at Metro Weekly.
Read “Meth. We’re on It’: South Dakota’s Anti-Meth Campaign Raises Eyebrows” at New York Times.
Read "25 Years of Wilco: Tracing the Band’s Live Evolution Through Their Best Bootlegs” at Pitchfork.
Read “The kids of Wu-Tang Clan have formed their own Wu-Tang Clan” at AV Club.
Read “Church builds huge baby Jesus statue — that looks like Phil Collins” at New York Post.
See “Inside the vinyl archives of Berlin’s biggest music library” at Vinyl Factory.
Read “Spotify Announces Its Own Award Show” at Pitchfork.
Read “David Bazan talks about his music and watching Christianity be “co-opted by authoritarianism” at Vox: "For me, it’s heartbreaking over and over again. You just think, “Surely now they can see. Surely now they can see.” What do I do with that? Knowing that certain people that I love deeply, and depended on, are just going to go to their graves being stooges for fascism and authoritarianism? That’s still something I’m trying to make sense of."
Read “Chris Martin Says Coldplay Won’t Tour for Environmental Reasons” at Pitchfork.
Read “Nick Cave announces new autobiography and exhibition, ‘Stranger Than Kindness’ Read More: Nick Cave announces new autobiography and exhibition, ‘Stranger Than Kindness’ at Brooklyn Vegan.
Read “Trump’s Denials Turned into a Ramones Song: “I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO.” at Open Culture.
Read “How Countries Around the World Fund Music—and Why It Matters As President Trump eyes abolishing federal arts funding in the U.S., a survey of tax-supported music from Australia to Iceland reveals a complex, shifting landscape” at Pitchfork.
Read “How Poison frontman Bret Michaels went from glam-metal icon to Humanitarian of the Year” at AZ Central.
Read “Flying teapots and electric Camembert: the story of Gong, prog's trippiest band” at The Guardian.
Read “Noel Gallagher wants to play guitar for The Smiths if they ever reunite” at NME.
Read “Tiddas honoured for their fierce, bold, pioneering music” at The Age and listen to "Inanay" by Tiddas on Episode 05 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.
Browse “Portrait of the Artist: An Oral History of David Berman at UVA” at Virginia.edu.
Read “Janet Weiss talks leaving Sleater-Kinney: “the new record was made sort of without me” Read More: Janet Weiss talks leaving Sleater-Kinney: “the new record was made sort of without me” at Brooklyn Vegan: “"I said, ‘am I just the drummer now?’ They said yes. And I said, ‘can you tell me if I am still a creative equal in the band?’ And they said no. So, I left."
Read “KISS played a show for great white sharks, but no sharks showed up” at Consequence of Sound.
Watch “Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart plays the rhythm of the universe” at PBS.
Read “'One of the Best Yet' Is Another Gang Starr Classic” at PopMatters.
Read “Neil Young Will No Longer Use Facebook Because Of Its “Obvious Commitments” To Republicans” at Stereogum.
Read “Why Your Favorite Alt-Rock Legends Are Remixing Their Old Albums” at Vice.
Read “Wu-Tang Clan are getting their very own amusement park in South Korea” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “How Wes Anderson Perfected the Music-Nerd Soundtrack (from 2018)” at Pitchfork.
Read “That Time Michael Bolton Wrote a Song With Bob Dylan” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Lunachicks are back, announce first show in over a decade Read More: Lunachicks are back, announce first show in over a decade” at Brooklyn Vegan.
Read/Listen to “Pete Townshend On Creativity, 'The Age Of Anxiety' And The Who's New Record” at NPR.
Read “Bonnie "Prince" Billy on Recording Others' Songs, Mourning David Berman and Long-Awaited 'I Made a Place' at Exclaim.
Read as Grimes tells NME “I think live music is going to be obsolete soon”.
Read “Bon Iver Share First Official Music Video Since 2012” at Pitchfork.
Read “‘Blurryface’ by Twenty One Pilots is the biggest-selling rock album of the decade” at NME.
Read “A new Gorillaz documentary is coming to theaters for one night only” at AV Club.
Read “The Timetravellin' Bob Dylan: On 'Bringing It All Back Home'“ at PopMatters.
Read “Taylor Swift Is Fighting With Her Former Record Label Again” at Spin.
Read “'Tis Already The Season To Argue About 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'“ at NPR.
Read “The Beatles: Abbey Road Changed Music History Forever” at Den Of Geek.
Browse “A Brief Guide to Metal In China” at Bandcamp.
Read “Kanye Announces Nebuchadnezzar Opera” at Pitchfork.
Read “Kanye West put the wrong emperor on his Nebuchadnezzar opera invite It features Persian emperor Darius the Great, not the Babylonian king” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Kanye West teases Jesus Is King Part II with Dr. Dre” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Joe Henry's Next Second Chance” at NPR: “I'm not going to hide with this," Joe Henry said. "We're called to bear witness." Almost a year to the day since a grim diagnosis, Henry has released 'The Gospel According to Water,' an album as emotionally nuanced as he's ever made.”
Read “Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison Set 2020 Stadium Tour” at Rolling Stone.
See “AIR Studio Ruins: George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “How Do We Live With Music Made by Problematic Artists?” at Pitchfork.
Read “Nicolas Cage in talks to play Nicolas Cage in movie about Nicolas Cage” at CNet.
Read “How an Internet Obsession Resurrected a Creepy, Long-Lost Sesame Street Cartoon” at Slate.
Read “John Mulaney made a kids variety special with David Byrne & more for Netflix Read More: John Mulaney made a kids variety special with David Byrne & more for Netflix” at Brooklyn Vegan.
Read “The Bob's Burgers Movie Has Been Pulled from Disney's Release Schedule” at Paste.
Read “‘Sesame Street’ Is Highlighting a Forgotten Skill: Failing” at Forge.
Read “Beautiful Day' Director On Mister Rogers' 'Radical Notion': Telling Kids The Truth” at NPR.
Read “How The ‘Dora the Explorer’ Effect Helped Usher in a New Wave of Inclusive Animation” at Variety.
Read “Justice Department to change how studios distribute films by revoking decades-old rules Wiping out the Paramount consent decrees could completely alter the theater industry” at Consequence of Sound: “Under the new rules, a Netflix Multiplex, or a new Amazon subscription tier that includes two screenings a month in an actual cinema could come to fruition.”
Read “Todd Phillips to write and direct Joker sequel, wants to do more DC Comics origins movies” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood” at Guardian.
Read “Jay-Z says Colin Kaepernick turned his ‘legitimate workout’ into publicity stunt” at NY Daily News.
Read “'Our friendship was intimate on all levels': Robyn Crawford on her love for Whitney Houston” at The Guardian.
Read “Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry” at Brain Pickings.
Read “Pizza Hut’s ‘Little Free Libraries’ Look Exactly Like Mini Pizza Huts” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “Wendell Berry on Delight as a Force of Resistance to Consumerism, the Key to Mirth Under Hardship, and the Measure of a Rich Life” at Brain Pickings.
Read “Proust on Why We Read “The end of a book’s wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own, so that at the moment when the book has told us everything it can, it gives rise to the feeling that it has told us nothing” at Brain Pickings.
Read “Traveler Restaurant This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “The Guerrilla Girls Are Targeting MoMA Trustees Tied to Jeffrey Epstein With an Ad on a Phone Booth Outside the Museum” at Art.net.
Read “120,000 Ribbons Hover Where The Berlin Wall Once Stood To Mark The 30-Year Anniversary Of Its Fall” at Bored Panda.
Read “Police Foiled a Brazen Thief Who Tried Sneak Out of a London Museum With Two Rembrandts in Tow” at Art.net.
Read “Comic Sans Turns 25: Graphic Designer Vincent Connare Explains Why He Created the Most Hated Font in the World” at Open Culture.
Read “Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire works from women next year: ‘You have to do something radical’" at Baltimore Sun.
Read “A Three-Story Mural Keith Haring Created for a Catholic Youth Center Sold for $3.9 Million—to the Chagrin of the Artist’s Foundation” at Art.net.
Read “Download 576 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art” at Open Culture.
Read “Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos: An Illustrated Celebration of How the Pioneering Artist’s Love of Animals Shaped Her Character” at Brain Pickings.
Read “Amid Criticism and Controversy, the Guggenheim Museum Hires Its First Full-Time Black Curator” at The Root.
Read “Donald Trump’s Crazy Handwriting Is Now A Free Font Called Tiny Hand” at Fast Company.
Read/Watch “Why overuse of antibiotics is a massive, ‘staggering’ problem in health care” at PBS News Hour.
Read “It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a cognitive neuroscientist” at Aeon.
Read “An Oceanographer’s Amazing Algorithm That Removes Blue-Green Visual Distortion From Underwater Photos” at Laughing Squid.
Read “Scientists develop slippery toilet coating to stop poo sticking Spray-on surface could prevent bacteria building up and reduce household water use” at The Guardian.
Read “NASA Makes Their Entire Media Library Publicly Accessible and Copyright Free” at DIY Photography.
See “Excellent animation explains how an escalator works” at Boing Boing.
Read “60% of world's wildlife has been wiped out since 1970” at CBC.
See the “Paste Eater's Grave” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “Serial Killer Goblins May Be On the Loose in Zimbabwe” at Mysterious Universe.
See “Museum of Miniature Books” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “Bainbridge Township police: Man said he fired gun because he thought Bigfoot was trying to enter his home” at Cleveland 19.
Read “Arizona is the only state with an English-only education law. It's time to repeal it” at AZ Central.
Read “Arizona Man to Plead Guilty to Illegally Making Ammunition Bought by Las Vegas Shooter” at Time.
Read “Lyft announces plan to end service at Phoenix airport due to proposed fee” at KTAR.
Read “Amazon opens first physical bookstore in Arizona at Scottsdale Quarter” at AZ Central.
Read “Oscar Mayer Wienermobile to make stops in Valley this weekend” at KTAR.
Read “‘We need to act fast’: Statewide forum focuses on climate solutions for Arizona” at AZ Central.
Read “Tent city's closure saving Maricopa County millions” at AZ Family.
Read/Watch “Flyer for white supremacy group found in downtown Phoenix” at 12 News.
Read “Protesters want Valley Metro to stop police sweeps for light rail fares” at KTAR.
Read “Arizona Lawmaker Wants Armed Vets in Schools, Slams Funding For Counselors” at Phoenix New Times: “Arizona State Representative Jay Lawrence told New Times that "a couple Green Berets" at a school could deter a "bad actor" or possibly serve more mundane school functions, like breaking up fights.”
Read “Country’s 1st car-free neighborhood coming to Tempe in 2020” at KTAR.