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🌎 The U.S. wants healthier children. So why is it scaling back its nutrition programs?


November 18, 2025

Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul

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The U.S. wants healthier children. So why is it scaling back its nutrition programs?

When the Trump administration released its Make America Healthy Again report in May, it lifted up the Women, Infants and Children supplemental food program, known as WIC, as a shining example of how the government can get healthy eating right....


Oklahoma man was scheduled for execution despite clemency recommendation

An Oklahoma inmate convicted of murdering a teenager who belonged to a nonviolent religious sect remains scheduled for execution, despite a parole board's finding that he doesn't deserve to die. Tremane Wood, 46, is set to be executed...


Bishops overwhelmingly back ban on ‘gender interventions’ by Catholic health care

The U.S. bishops have approved an updated version of their guiding document on Catholic health care, with substantial revisions that include explicit prohibitions against so-called “gender-affirming care.” Proposed updates to the “Ethical....


Texans on Mission volunteers deliver aid kits in Jamaica

After Hurricane Melissa ravaged Jamaica, Texans on Mission deployed an initial task force to support local partners on the ground as they look to find their way through the destruction to restore and rebuild. They discovered evidence of the powerful....


In secular France, Christians work to bring new life to an old monastery

At the northern edge of this seaside port city — first settled by Greek sailors 2,600 years ago — stands the abandoned Betheline monastery. It’s just one of thousands of decaying religious structures scattered throughout France. In a society once....



FROM FAITH ON VIEW

Still Here After Rosh Hashanah: Reflections on Failed Rapture Predictions

Like most people, I did not get Raptured on Rosh Hashanah. At this point, I have not been a part of a Rapture-emphasizing tradition for more of my life than I was, but I came of age during the lead-up to the turn of the millennium, so in some ways I...


U.S. Catholic bishops double down on conservatism with Coakley’s election

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has elected Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City as its new president. The decision marks a continuation of the body’s conservative trajectory during a politically volatile time. Coakley, a known....


Religion in Retreat: Only 49% of Americans say it matters daily

A new Gallup poll reveals that only 49% of U.S. adults consider religion important in their daily lives. This marks a steep 17-point drop since 2015 and places the U.S. among the countries with the sharpest global declines. Gallup notes such rapid....


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COMMENTARY

When God Lets Us Have What We Want

In Paul’s Letter to the Romans, the “wrath of God” is not a divine temper tantrum or arbitrary rage, but the righteous, covenantal response of God to human sin and rebellion. Paul introduces this theme early, in Romans 1:18: “For the wrath of God...

What is Apostasy?

Another good way to understand apostasy and what causes one to abandon his or her religious faith is “to forget.” In the history of civilization, the battle between intellectual honesty and intellectual barbarity is one that has cycled back a forth...


Is Homeschooling Easy or Hard?

I think there was a time, a few decades ago, when pretty much everyone knew what homeschooling was: homeschooling was weird. I joke, in part, but between about 1950 and 1985, homeschooling really was greatly shaped by how unusual it was....


Accepting Rejection

Rejections have started coming in. Some of them silent, which I’ve come to prefer to polite expressions of indifference. I’m now in a phase of the writing life I dislike the most: trying to get something started. This involves a series of steps. The first is....


True Politics & the Ethic of Love, Part 1

God’s required commandments of mankind are summarized by our Lord through first, loving God and second, loving our neighbor. This is the whole of ethics, the required oughtness of how mankind is to live in God’s world. And of course....


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GOOD NEWS

Brooklyn 4-year-old handed out paper hearts to strangers just to make them smile

A four-year-old became an ambassador of kindness in Brooklyn. During a two-day school break, Adonis was doing arts and crafts at home when he asked his mom, Andrea Davis Woods, to help him cut out paper hearts. "He wanted help with...


What went right this week: the good news that matters

The EU has committed to putting climate education on the school curriculum, a move hailed as a “watershed moment” by climate groups. Announcing the measure, the EU said that climate literacy was “essential for fostering an informed...


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