Friday’s News & Ideas - 10/10/2025
- Cautious celebration of ceasefire
- Theology during a shutdown
- French pastor who saved Jews
- Sister Jean dies
- Pope Leo’s exhortation
- Zohran Mamdani on power
American Jews and Muslims celebrate ceasefire deal, but cautiously
Religion News Service: Many expressed relief at the prospect of an end to the two-year war but pointed out that ceasefires have been broken before.
Reuters: Gazans trek to ruined homes as Israeli forces pull back under ceasefire
A simple guide to doing theology during a shutdown*
Sojourners: Whenever politics get messy, the best theological question is often the simplest one: How do these decisions impact people who don’t have much power or money?
Memoir reveals heart, theology of French pastor who saved Jews
Baptist News Global: André Trocmé saw himself as a devoted follower of Jesus and Protestant pastor in a small French village and saw World War II as a chance to live out the truths of the gospel.
Sister Jean, nun and sensation on basketball sidelines, dies at 106*
The Washington Post: As chaplain for Loyola University Chicago’s hoops team, Jean Dolores Schmidt enjoyed sudden fame with the squad’s 2018 NCAA tournament performance. Her motto: “Worship, Work, Win.”
Pope Leo sides with the poor
Religion News Service: The new apostolic exhortation calls out the “wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”
The Spark
What Zohran Mamdani knows about power
The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics,* The New Yorker says. Can he transform the city as mayor?
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