RNS Morning Report: Study: Gore says climate crisis like ‘nature hike right through the Book of Revelation’

Quote of the Day “The Black presence around and in this issue has not been as prominent and as significant as perhaps it could have been and should have been.” – the Rev. Fred Davie, senior adviser for racial equity at Interfaith America Top Stories Preservationists seek to acquire beloved Hollywood home to cloistered nuns LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Over the years, the Monastery of the Angels community has been dwindling as the nuns age and after some died from COVID-19 and other causes, making it difficult to sustain the monastery’s ‘democratic way of life.’   Lawsuit accuses ACNA church of negligence that resulted in child sexual abuse (RNS) — The case will be co-counseled by longtime sexual abuse attorney Boz Tchividjian.   Gore says climate crisis like ‘nature hike right through the Book of Revelation’ (RNS) — ‘The transition to a cleaner future can also be a transition to a more just and equitable future,’ he said at a Black Interfaith Project event.   A year after disaster, thousands flock to Israeli holy site (AP) — This year's Lag BaOmer holiday festivities at Mount Meron are overshadowed by last year's deaths, the largest civilian disaster in the country's history. RNS Opinion Kendrick Lamar’s new album reminds us that even prophets are fallible (RNS) — His first album in five years has the Pulitzer Prize winner counting the costs of truth-telling.   How Christian nationalism won Pennsylvania’s GOP primary (RNS) — And why it will bring losses in the fall.   DeSantis can’t unwrite Disney’s history of ‘saying gay’ (RNS) — I don’t need Disney to publicly condemn DeSantis’ politics so I am able to feel valued as a gay man. I feel that way every time I set foot on Disney property.   What I learned when I got COVID This is what "positive thinking" can get you. In the midst of it all, COVID became my rabbi. ICYMI Faith on the ground in Buffalo: Voice Buffalo executive director Denise Walden (RNS) — ‘They are some of the matriarchs and the pillars of our community,’ Buffalo minister says of residents killed in attack.   With Roe in peril, abortion rights advocates prepare appeals to religious liberty WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘The Torah is clear on this issue: Abortion is not only permitted in Judaism, but in some cases required when the life of the pregnant person is at stake,’ said Sheila Katz, head of the National Council of Jewish Women. In Other News Gore says climate crisis like ‘nature hike right through the Book of Revelation’ Preservationists seek to acquire beloved Hollywood home to cloistered nuns Lawsuit accuses ACNA church of negligence that resulted in child sexual abuse A year after disaster, thousands flock to Israeli holy site Talk to Us We want your feedback on the RNS Morning Report — what you think we're doing right and what we should be doing differently. Send us an email at Comments@ReligionNews.com Subscribe to other RNS Newsletters. Forward this email to a friend. View the archive of past newsletters. Religion News Service is free to read, but it's not free to produce. If you value our reporting, please consider making a donation today. Yes, I support the work you're doing! Forward this email to a friend