The Bishop’s Reading List
For your summer reading enjoyment, we are introducing The Bishop’s Reading List, a new, occasional feature with links to articles and other online materials that Bishop Nicholas has been reading.
This week, smart home technology as a path to energy independence; a new religious charter school in Oklahoma; the Catholic Church’s history of profiting from slavery (which we share as Episcopalians); and a woman who, quite literally, bought a mountain in northwestern Pennsylvania for God—and a far-right Christian movement called the New Apostolic Reformation.
Home, smart home (The Verge)
Oklahoma Approves First Religious Charter School in the U.S. (New York Times)
The Catholic Church profited from slavery — ‘The 272’ explains how (NPR)
The Woman Who Bought A Mountain for God (The Atlantic)