Friday’s News & Ideas - 6/13/2025
- Impact of PEPFAR cuts
- LGBTQ+ faith leaders
- Religion & basketball in Indiana
- SBC vote on women pastors
- HDS guts program after report
- Public investigators
An AIDS orphan, a pastor and his frantic search for the meds that keep her alive
NPR: A child’s HIV medications and her medical care have been provided by a U.S.-funded clinic with a big salmon-colored gate in her town of Kapiri Mposhi. Then came inauguration night.
How LGBTQ+ faith leaders are fighting for full inclusion in churches
USA Today: Nearly half of all LGBTQ+ adults in the United States — approximately 5.3 million people — are religious, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School.
The religious roots of Hoosier hysteria*
Christianity Today: Indiana’s storied basketball tradition was built on equality and faith — but only for some.
Vote to bar churches with women pastors fails again at SBC meeting
Religion News Service: The issue of women staffers who have the title of pastor in SBC churches has been up for debate repeatedly in recent years.
Harvard Divinity School guts religious studies program critical of Israel
Religion News Service: Religion and Public Life was one of a handful of programs singled out in Harvard’s 311-page antisemitism report issued in April as being especially problematic.
The Spark
The man who unsolved a murder
If you’re accused of a crime, will someone investigate your side of the story? In California, there’s no guarantee, CalMatters says.
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