Friday’s News & Ideas - 5/22/2026
- 'Cancer won't take my faith’
- Anti-Muslim bias isn't new
- Churches address violence
- Faith, power & public discipleship
- The beauty of old churches
- 30 years of writing about Magic: The Gathering
Cancer may take my life. It won’t take my faith.*
Washington Post: A grim prognosis strengthened my belief in providence, a mother writes about her diagnosis of early-onset advanced colorectal cancer.
Another mass shooting. More dead Muslims. This is America.
Religion Dispatches: We can make something new, but only by facing what has come before, writes scholar Hussein Rashid.
Faith communities fighting violence by working to fill societal needs
News5 Cleveland: Churches in a neighborhood where there was a deadly shooting focus on meeting the immediate needs in the community to strengthen connections and reduce risk factors.
Choosing between the banquets of the empire and the kingdom*
Presbyterian Outlook: The Rev. Quincy Worthington recounts witnessing protest and brutality outside an ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois — and how that moment reshaped his understanding of faith, power and public discipleship.
What old churches teach us about faith, beauty and the brokenness of Christianity
FaVS News: What began as sightseeing became an encounter with generations of believers whose prayers, divisions and hopes still echo there.
The Spark
This archivist has saved 175,000 articles from 30 years of writing about Magic: The Gathering
Named after a Magic card, the Library of Leng is a new searchable database of writing about the card game, 404 media says.
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