Monday’s News & Ideas - 6/22/2026

Which Bible passages are in Texas’ proposed student reading list? Here’s what the selections reveal.
Texas Tribune: The chosen readings, to be voted on soon by the State Board of Education, draw heavily from Christian perspectives.

These nuns spent a lifetime helping others. In their last years, who will help them?
NPR: The problem of caring for elderly nuns is particularly dire in African orders, which already are underfunded in comparison to American and European ones.

Justice department says it will investigate MLB amid Pride hats controversy
The Guardian: The US justice department has launched a civil rights investigation into Major League Baseball after the league criticized three San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their hats during the team’s Pride Night.

Tell the stories of women in church leadership, Vanderbilt dean urges
Baptist News Global: Women have served in ministry throughout the history of the church even as their courage and tenacity have been mostly overlooked and forgotten, said theologian Yolanda Pierce, dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School.

Sitting by Dorothy Day’s grave, her granddaughter reflects on faith, family and war
National Catholic Reporter: She is Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, one of the best-known voices in the Catholic Worker movement, an anti-nuclear activist who has gone to prison for acts of civil disobedience, a mother, a grandmother, an occupational therapist and a woman who spent decades finding her way back to the Catholic faith she once left behind.

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‘Toy Story’ confronts a nightmare of modern parenting
The Pixar franchise’s latest installment* makes an enemy out of screen time, The Atlantic says.

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