Monday's News & Ideas - 2/24/2025

Why religion is fundamental to addressing climate change
The Conversation: Building a global response to the climate crisis requires us to learn about the many ways people make sense of climate change and learn to live with its consequences. And for most of the world’s population, a purely scientific framing is unhelpful.

Pope rests in his 10th day of hospitalization but remains in critical condition
NPR: The Vatican announced Monday morning that Pope Francis had a “restful” night in the Italian hospital where he's been receiving treatment for a complex respiratory infection that includes double pneumonia and bronchitis.

Trump’s pick to run White House Faith Office sparks theological turf war
Religion News Service: Idaho pastor Doug Wilson referred to White-Cain as an “erratic woman preacher who has been all over the map.”

Thousands of children in England accused of witchcraft in past decade
The Guardian: Figures emerge as “Kindoki Witch Boy” film tells the true story of Mardoche Yembi who underwent an exorcism as a child.

In this age of madness, here are sane ways to re-engage with the news
Religion Unplugged: Writer Steph Juliot observes that the news can often be “divisive, doomy and gloomy, or drivel (or some combination).” Those aren’t excuses for opting out, though, she argues.

The Spark

The end of children
Birth rates* are crashing around the world, The New Yorker says. Should we be worried?

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