Monday’s News & Ideas - 6/16/2025
- Attending more than one church
- MN murder suspect is a minister
- Why is the SBC powerful?
- Making a group house a home
- Mass at Sox field
- Being an older father
What church do you attend? Maybe more than one, survey finds
Religion News Service: Overall, besides worship services, participation in other religious activities and programs has increased or remained the same in the last five years.
Suspect in killing of Minnesota legislator is a minister who evangelized in Africa
Religion News Service: Vance Boelter claimed to be educated at Christ for the Nations, a Bible school in Dallas, and preached in DR Congo in recent years.
Why does the Southern Baptist Convention wield so much political influence?*
The Christian Century: The SBC is loud, but it represents a slim minority of Christians who are out of step with the rest of the country.
What makes a group house a home?
Sojourners: L’Arche challenges the notion that a group home is predominantly a place to provide care services.
‘South Side’ Pope Leo offers video message to Chicagoans at ballpark mass
The Guardian: Underneath the Miller Time and Caesars Sportsbook signs, the Chicago cardinal, Blase Cupich, led the mass by saying: “I think I’m going to remember this moment as a sermon on the mound.”
The Spark
The old man
Jelani Cobb writes for The New Yorker on being an older father,* just like his dad.
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