Friday’s News & Ideas - 11/7/2025
- Conservative support for Israel
- Pope Leo on detained migrants
- Church & Nazification
- Vanderbilt to use NY seminary
- Iconography book
- Roosevelt & newspapers
Support for Israel among U.S. conservatives is starting to crack. Here’s why
NPR: Opposition to Israel on the right isn’t new, but younger conservatives appear to be rapidly moving away from supporting the close U.S. relationship with the country.
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in the United States
The Associated Press: Pope Leo XIV called for “deep reflection” in the United States about the treatment of migrants held in detention, saying that “many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now.”
The church better start taking Nazification seriously*
Christianity Today: Already some constantly online young men who profess to be evangelicals are winking and nodding with HH references and “noticing things” memes while commending the ideologies of Nazis.
Aging N.Y.C. seminary’s prayers are answered with a lease by Vanderbilt*
The New York Times: The Tennessee university has promised to make repairs to the General Theological Seminary buildings as it establishes a satellite campus in Chelsea.
Illuminating the icons*
The Christian Century: Theologian Eve Tibbs’s book on Eastern Orthodox iconography is accessible, enlightening, and beautifully illustrated.
The Spark
The president and the press corps
Theodore Roosevelt was the first White House occupant to seek control over how newspapers covered him, JSTOR says.
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