Monday’s News & Ideas - 11/17/2025
- More white clergy run for office
- Faith leaders arrested at ICE
- Optimism falling in cities
- Vatican returns Indigenous artifacts
- ACNA clergy call for suspension
- Young women with ALS
‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: Why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates
The Guardian: From Texas and Iowa to Arkansas, faith leaders are wading into politics to counter the rise of Christian nationalism
At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest
Religion News Service: “I’ve got bruises all over my body,” the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS.
Optimism is rising in rural areas, falling in cities, poll finds
The Associated Press: The common denominator across the communities? A gnawing worry about daily household costs, according to a new survey from the American Communities Project.
Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada
The Associated Press: The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts from its vast ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples from Canada, as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas.
80 ACNA clergy and counting call for inhibition of Archbishop Steve Wood
Religion News Service: Wood, who faces allegations of sexual harassment, bullying and plagiarism, announced his paid, voluntary leave of absence from the role last week.
The Spark
The young women grappling with an ‘old man’s disease’
Diagnosed with A.L.S.,* they traded stories, drank tequila and made grim jokes at a unique annual gathering on Cape Cod, The New York Times says.
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