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April 03, 2025

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IN THE NEWS

Around the world, many people are leaving their childhood religions

In many countries around the world, a fifth or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised. Christianity and Buddhism have experienced especially large losses from this “religious switching,” while rising numbers of....


Eyes on the cross

A cross has hung on the wall next to Marisol Arroyo-Castro’s desk alongside family photos and calendars for more than a decade. The cross features a raised shape depicting Christ’s death. Raised Catholic, she says the cross reminds her to....


IVF, surrogacy have created a chilling moral horror show

Dr. Craig Turczynski is the former director of in-vitro fertilization, andrology, and hormone assay laboratories at Louisiana State University Medical Center-Shreveport – emphasis on former. In a recent clip posted to X by children’s rights advocate....


Despite Church efforts, Uruguay will likely approve euthanasia in near future

As the new members of the Uruguayan Congress began their work in February after the October of 2024’s elections, a bill aiming at decriminalizing euthanasia has been quickly introduced and will apparently end up being approved, maybe even this....


Iraqi cardinal pushes for Christian quota reform before vote

An Iraqi cardinal has called for a major change in how Christian representatives are elected to the country’s parliament, ahead of a vote scheduled for October. Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako issued the appeal March 26, arguing that the current....


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FROM FAITH ON VIEW

Donna Jean’s Place: A new sanctuary for women at Seattle’s St. Mark’s Cathedral

St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, Washington, has launched a 20-bed shelter for homeless women. The facility, named Donna Jean’s Place, occupies two renovated classrooms in a former school building on cathedral grounds. This....


Fighting Correction Fatigue

I call it correction fatigue. It appears in all seasons, but especially during this time of final exams and papers. Correction fatigue strikes when you are in the middle of grading students’ papers and you come to a paper that is filled with errors. The....


Will Trump’s presidency permanently reshape the balance of power?

The second Trump administration is asserting broader presidential powers than before, igniting a growing clash with the judiciary. A recent legal dispute centers on the administration’s deportation of over 200 Venezuelans, despite a federal....


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COMMENTARY

The Judeo-Christian Nation

Polarization is the inescapable theme of the moment. Yet, the reality is that the US has always struggled through division, with even the Founding Era being a far more fractious time than our own. And yet, time and time again, Americans have...


Are we expecting too much of the church?

We should expect the Christian church to be a community that faithfully preaches and teaches the word of God, a place where people are safe from predators and fraudsters (or where predators and fraudsters are dealt with swiftly, justly and....


How Trump is finding workarounds to legal hurdles

There’s a theme emerging in the Trump administration’s battles in courtrooms across the country contesting an array of executive actions facing litigation. As the saying goes, if you can’t go under or over — go around. As judges issue injunctions....


Experts Call Use of Signal ‘Unbelievably Poor’ Security Practice

Current and former government officials are alarmed by the use of a commercial encryption platform by senior members of President Donald Trump’s administration to discuss sensitive and potentially classified national security matters. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and other participants ....


My family’s 8-year infertility journey has forever changed Lent for me

On Oct. 9, 2020, my wife Hope started screaming. I thought she’d found a snake in the house. As it turns out, she was pregnant. We’d been married for 10 years at that point, struggling against infertility for over eight of those years, and told by doctors....


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GOOD NEWS

UK Emissions Hit Lowest Level Since 1872

​The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 3.6% in 2024, reaching 371 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent—the lowest since 1872, per Carbon Brief’s analysis. This significant reduction is largely attributed to a sharp decline in coal usage, which fell....


'StoryRx' initiative prescribes storytelling for older adults: 'Boosts survival odds by 50%'

In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General released an urgent advisory, educating the country on the loneliness epidemic. With this advisory, the American Medical Association was directed to develop educational programs about the impacts of....


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