Monday's News & Ideas - 3/3/2025
- Pope has respiratory relapse
- Trump cancels refugee grants
- Mike Johnson living in pastor’s house
- Interview with Wolterstorff
- “Black + Evangelical”
- Lives of animal researchers
Pope Francis is in stable condition after a respiratory relapse, the Vatican says
NPR: Pope Francis was in stable condition on Saturday evening and receiving oxygen therapy, as the 88-year-old moves into a third week of battling pneumonia. The Vatican says his prognosis is guarded.
Trump admin cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles
Religion News Service: “Our status as a resettlement agency based on this termination notice is over,” said Danilo Zak, director of policy for Church World Service.
Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a D.C. house that is the center of a pastor’s secretive influence campaign
ProPublica: The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by Steve Berger, an evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie.”
‘My problem was not with Grief with a capital G. My problem was that Eric was dead.’*
The New York Times: Peter Wehner spoke to Nicholas Wolterstorff, a professor emeritus of philosophical theology at Yale, about his journey of faith, the strongest philosophical case for and against Christianity, what evangelicals have gotten wrong about politics, how he came to care about justice and what it means to own grief redemptively.
Documentary highlights the tensions, isolation of being ‘Black + Evangelical’
Religion News Service: “Did you know that the word evangelical can mean something else than what you think it means if you read most of what’s in the media today?” asks co-producer Vincent Bacote.
The Spark
The harrowing lives of animal researchers
Science depends on animal testing. But the work comes at a steep, hidden cost, Vox says. (trigger warning: description of animal death and gore)
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