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March 19, 2026

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IN THE NEWS

Pope Leo escalates call for ceasefire in Iran with message 'to those responsible'

Pope Leo XIV demanded a ceasefire in the Middle East on Sunday in his strongest comments to date, directly addressing the leaders who launched the war in Iran. “On behalf of the Christians of the Middle East and all women and men of good will, I...


Why it could take years to trace the Indigenous artifacts returned by the Vatican

More than 60 Indigenous items repatriated from the Vatican are now back on Canadian soil — but their journey home is just getting started. Experts and elders are now working to trace their origins and return them to the communities that...


El Greco painting found hidden beneath a forgery in the Vatican

This weekend, the Vatican revealed a newly discovered painting by master Mannerist El Greco, long hidden underneath a forgery. This small work of oil on board, titled The Redeemer (c. 1590–95), turned up in the Pope’s home...


Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signs ‘heartbeat bill’ restricting abortions after detectable fetal heartbeat

Wyoming has enacted new legislation restricting abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, becoming the latest state to adopt such a measure following a recent court decision that invalidated the state’s previous near-total abortion ban....


Taylor Tomlinson’s Netflix special is too ungodly for many churches. This one welcomed her.

“My iPhone started capitalizing the G in God again without asking me,” Taylor Tomlinson says in her latest Netflix stand-up special, gripping a mic beneath the ornate ceiling of Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan...



FROM FAITH ON VIEW

The Crossroads of Culture and the Church: Brian Tome

Brian Tome and Crossroads Church came under renewed scrutiny in January 2026 after Tome sent a letter to congregants regarding a terminated staff member. The staff member had been caught video recording women at the local gym and was...


Faith Under Fire: Methodist leader suspended over Epstein job

UMC suspends Rev. Stephanie Remington after leaders learned she worked for Jeffrey Epstein. The Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church ordered a 90-day suspension starting March 12. The move places her position on pause...


Texas Faith Politics Clash: James Talarico vs conservative media

James Talarico faces “Pastor Pornhub” backlash as Texas faith politics collide. Right-wing figures target the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate nominee with escalating insults, and the attacks frame him as dangerous because he quotes Scripture...


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COMMENTARY

Young Latinos – and their commitment to social justice – are shaping the future of the Catholic Church

On Ash Wednesday, 2026, two Roman Catholic priests and a religious sister entered an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, to celebrate Mass with detainees inside. It might seem like a simple, routine event: a religious...


The Case for (a New) Purity Culture

This essay is my attempt to do three things. First, I want to share some of my own experience growing up in the kind of conservative evangelicalism that’s been at the center of many fraught conversations about parenting, ministry, and sexual purity....


What a Social Media Detox Did For My Nervous System and Soul

For the sake of brevity, I’ll focus on just one area. Early in the effort to spiff up my consciousness, I realized I needed to log off Facebook and Instagram—and to do this as part of my deep dive into consciousness hygiene, rather than as Lenten...


Killer Robots: The Future Is Here

If you hear the phrase “killer robots” or “machine warriors” and think of The Terminator franchise’s cyborg assassin, you are not alone. But in the US today, we’ve moved from a dystopian fiction to a darker reality. In the absence of a...


How I'm Using AI

Following up on my podcast with Dean Ball on AI, I wanted to share a little bit about how I’ve been using it. My early forays into trying out AI chatbots were disappointing to say the least. Their training data stopped more than a year into the past and...


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GOOD NEWS

10 ways that future urban living will be greener

With millennia of history, hundreds of miles of underground rail and thousands of miles of sewers and pipelines, making large-scale sustainable infrastructural changes in central London is incredibly complex. However, a pioneering...


1,000 Attend UMHB Tent Revival as 80 Students Commit to Christ

Around 1,000 students gathered for a multi-night revival at a Texas Christian university last week, with dozens responding by committing their lives to Christ, renewing their faith or sensing a call to ministry. The University of Mary...


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