Monday’s News & Ideas - 11/3/2025
- NC’s born-again Chief Justice
- Political ‘God gap’
- Episcopal priest detained
- Appeal of Quaker worship
- Muslim voter survey
- Arcadia Publishing
God’s Chief Justice
ProPublica: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
White Republicans, Democratic “nones”
ARC: Religion in the United States (particularly white religion) is now Republican-coded.
Texas Episcopal diocese says one of its priests has been detained by ICE
Religion News Service: “We do not know yet why he was targeted,” said the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, who leads the Diocese of Texas.
Young adults turn to Quakers’ silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world
The Associated Press: At the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia’s Old City, more and more young people are seeking respite from a clamorous technological age in the silent worship of a centuries-old faith.
Muslim voters didn’t cost Dems the 2024 election, a new poll says. But they may have found their voice
Religion News Service: The idea that Muslim voters cost Kamala Harris the election is unfounded, according to a poll of Muslim voters.
The Spark
The ghostwriters in the machine
Arcadia Publishing* built its empire on small-town storytellers. Now it wants to sell their words to an A.I. company no one will name, Slate says.
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