Hamline University officials made an about-face on Tuesday in its treatment of a lecturer who showed an image of the Prophet Muhammad in an art history class, walking back one of their most controversial statements — that showing the image was Islamophobic. They also said that respect for Muslim students should not have superseded academic freedom. (Patel, The New York Times)
Read MoreThe 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline received over 1.7 million calls, texts and chats in its first five months. That's nearly half a million more than the old 10-digit Suicide Prevention Lifeline fielded during the same period the year before.(Chatterjee, NPR)
Read MoreMs Keegan said that she was "working at 16, I was paying tax at 16, I could make decisions for myself at 16" after she was asked if it was too young to make such a decision. She later appeared to row back on the comments as she said that "all 16-year-olds are different" and "everybody has a different view". (The Telegraph)
Read MorePractices aimed at trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity would be prohibited if Scottish government proposals become law. These could be talking therapies or prayer, as well as the more extreme forms that have been reported, including exorcism, physical violence and food deprivation. (Merritt, The TImes UK)
Read MoreInstead of a “post-crisis” moment, it’s more common to talk of a “permacrisis,” of a world buckling under a never-ending cascade of calamity — war, climate catastrophe, energy price chaos, inflation, epidemics of hunger and disease, political instability and widening economic inequity. (Tharoor, The Washington Post)
Read MoreA ederal judge in Oregon on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging religious exemptions under Title IX. The decision comes as a win for Christian colleges that had joined the US Department of Education (DOE) in defending the exemptions in areas where their theological convictions on LGBT issues conflicted with the anti-discrimination law. (Belz, Christianity Today)
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