Weekly News Roundup by Mark Wingfield of Baptist News Global: "What kind of Christian posts a meme on social media that mocks Paul Pelosi after he was violently attacked?"

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Each Friday, Mark Wingfield, editor of Baptist News Global, sends a Friday roundup by email to those on the BNC mailing list. There's not an online link to this weekly roundup, so I can't offer you a link. I would, however, like to share some of Mark Wingfield's commentary from this week's roundup email (boldfacing emphasis is in original):

Structural racism beliefs by party affiliation, 2022 PRRI American Values Survey

Philip Bump comments on an ad just released by Steven Miller’s America First political group. Miller was an official in the Trump administration who played a key role in some of its most savage anti-immigrant policies. America First's ad claims that racism against white Americans is a bigger concern than discrimination against racial minorities.

For the Beauty of the Earth — And Its Beautiful People

We have friends from New Orleans visiting us now, Filipino friends whom we've known for forty years at least. They're here so that we can drive with them to northwest Arkansas, where the partner of their older son has a fellowship at Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville. Andy teaches art at a university in Los Angeles, and Jay has flown out from Los Angeles to rendezous with his parents, us, and Andy for several days.

Threat of White Christian Nationalism to US Democracy: A Recent Public Discussion

A week ago, Georgetown University's Center on Faith and Justice and the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty co-sponsored a public discussion of white Christian nationalism in the US. Participants: included Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church; Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee; Dr. Samuel Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma and Rev. Jim Wallis, Chair in Faith and Justice at the McCourt School of Public Policy and Director of the Georgetown University Center on Faith and Justice. I recommend the whole video, and would like to highlight the following statements by Michael Curry:

Robin Givhan: "The attack on Pelosi graphically highlights just how indecent this country has become"

Nick Anderson's cartoon commentary on the Pelosi attack — and more

Robin Givhan takes a look at one exceptionally disturbing aspect of the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul: what it says about the growing toleration of seemingly many Americans for elder abuse:

New Unmarked Graves Likely from Tulsa Race Riot in 1921 Unearthed

As Vanessa Romo reports, news has recently been released that 21 new unmarked graves have been discovered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at an excavation site in Oaklawn cemetery that is believed to contain the remains of Black citizens of Tulsa's Greenwood district massacred by white Tulsans in a race riot in 1921. Nineteen of the graves just found are adult graves; two appear to be burial sites of children.

Tom Nichols and Others on How Republican Response to Pelosi Attack Shows GOP Is Now a Brutal Mob

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Commentary continues regarding the intended attack on Nancy Pelosi that resulted in an attack on her husband. As Timothy Noah writes, "'We' Don’t Have a Political Violence Problem. Republicans Do":