Friday’s News & Ideas - 10/17/2025
- Gaza war & interfaith relationships
- No Kings protests
- Church of Norway apologizes
- D’Angelo’s ministry
- Guns & white evangelicals
- Ghost town enthusiast
The Gaza war hasn’t changed interfaith relations one bit. That’s a bad thing.
Religion News Service: Interfaith alliances should be struck between people who see the differences in their faiths, not the similarities in their politics.
Jesus cast down the mighty from their thrones. So should we*
Sojourners: The No Kings protests taking place this weekend, which Sojourners is cosponsoring, are the most visible markers of resistance to the Trump administration’s increasing suppression of freedom and consolidation of power.
Church of Norway says sorry to LGBTQ+ people for ‘shame, great harm and pain’
The Guardian: Presiding bishop Olav Fykse Tveit says discrimination and harassment should “never have happened.”
‘What feeds your soul’: D’Angelo’s sacred secular ministry
Religion Dispatches: Regardless of his worldly successes, D’Angelo always remained spiritually bound to that small Pentecostal church in the Virginia mountains.
‘In Guns We Trust’ challenges white evangelicals to rethink their alliance with firearms
Religion News Service: Veteran reporter William J. Kole said those who are ‘pro-life’ should take gun reforms seriously.
The Spark
It’s dead around here
A ghost town* enthusiast searches for the essence of these scarcely populated locales for Texas Highways Magazine.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
