RNS Morning Report: For Jews, pandemic-era online worship has an enduring upside

Top Stories For Jews, pandemic-era online worship has an enduring upside (RNS) — The embrace of videoconferencing and livestreaming is actually helping Jews engage more fully with their faith.   Drag queen, Christian artist Flamy Grant joins lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag act (RNS) — She joins LGBTQ nonprofit Blount Pride in suing a Tennessee district attorney who threatened to prosecute them over a pride event where Grant is scheduled to headline.   Lisa Doi: Pilgrims sustain the memory of Japanese American detainment (RNS) — A descendant of prisoners at World War II camps dedicated her doctoral research to how the Japanese American community commemorates its forebears' experience.   Ex-Catholic Cardinal McCarrick, age 93, found unfit to stand trial on teen sex abuse charges DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — McCarrick, the ex-archbishop of Washington, D.C., was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after an internal Vatican investigation determined he sexually molested adults as well as children. RNS Opinion Sixty years later, King’s dream still calls (RNS) — Six decades after King proclaimed his dream that we would all be ‘free at last’ from racism and violence, Black lives are still threatened every day by race-based killings.    Catholic educators need to take a lesson from public school battles (RNS) — The ‘wokeism’ crisis in public education is a historic opportunity for Catholic schools. ICYMI BYU officially restores honor code ban on ‘same-sex romantic behavior’ (RNS) — The change, which adds language prohibiting ‘same-sex romantic behavior’ to the honor code, was already an unwritten rule on campus.   Young Hindu professionals get a crash course in keeping the faith (RNS) — In the heart of Flushing, Queens, a group of young Hindus came together on a recent weekend to discuss the modern implications of ancient sacred texts.  In Other News Pope Francis to lay bare ‘terrible world war’ on nature in papal letter 1 in 6 churchgoers have had, paid for or encouraged an abortion, survey finds   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 at religionnews.com/donate. If you prefer to mail a donation, please address to: Religion News Foundation, PO Box 1808, Columbia, MO 65205. Yes, I support the work you're doing! Forward this email to a friend