Monday’s News & Ideas - 1/12/2026
- Faith networks in Minneapolis
- Jim Hunt & Religious Right
- Exvangelical anger
- Arson at MS synagogue
- God gap on college campuses
- Killing the already dead
In Minneapolis, George Floyd-era faith networks reignite after Renee Good’s killing by ICE
Religion News Service: The faith-based networks, which developed organizing infrastructure and relationships during the Floyd era, are joined by newcomers as resistance efforts have intensified since Good’s shooting.
Jim Hunt’s cross to bear*
The Assembly: The four-term Democratic governor and committed church-goer politicked with evangelical fervor. But he still struggled to sway the Religious Right.
A memoir of exvangelical anger — but not for the people in the pews*
Christianity Today: Journalist Josiah Hesse discusses his new book on poverty, Pentecostalism, and the politics of the Christian right.
Arson engulfs Mississippi synagogue, a congregation once bombed by Ku Klux Klan
NPR: Authorities have charged one person with arson in a fire that badly damaged Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Miss., early Saturday morning.
How big is the God gap on college campuses?
ARC: The God gap on college campuses is enormous — and it’s attendance that tells us more than denomination or religion.
The Spark
The perils of killing the already dead
Fear of what the dead might do to us didn’t start with Dracula,* and it didn’t end with him, either, The New Yorker says.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
