Monday’s News & Ideas - 6/29/2026
- Religious commission releases report
- Japanese camp survivors protest
- How LGBTQ+ people heal
- ‘Yesteryear’ gets tradwives wrong
- Church swept away in flood
- Comedian Mel Brooks turns 100
Controversial Trump religious liberty commission releases report
USA Today: The Religious Liberty Commission’s draft report follows hearings in which commissioners and witnesses raised concerns including antisemitism, religious freedom in public education and a perceived weaponization of the law against Christians under former administrations.
Japanese internment camp survivors demand closure of Dilley, TX family detention center
RNS and Texas Tribune: Completing a pilgrimage from the Texas site of a World War II internment camp, interfaith activists said history is repeating itself at the nation’s only family detention facility.
How LGBTQ-affirming churches are confronting religious trauma
Religion News Service: Nearly half of Americans who left religion cite the mistreatment or rejection of LGBTQ+ people as an important reason. But how do the LGBTQ+ people who stay find healing?
‘Yesteryear’ misses the real problem with the tradwife trend*
Washington Post: When it comes to marriage and motherhood, traditional and biblical are not the same.
Flash flooding destroys historic Madison County church; pastor says congregation has ‘got to have faith’
WKYT: The Million Church in Kentucky was swept away by floodwaters; the community fixture was originally built as a gas station in 1929 and converted to a church in 1970.
The Spark
For Mel Brooks and generations of his admirers, 100 years is not enough
On the Jewish filmmaker and comedian’s centenary, a look back at how a kid named Mel Kaminsky wound up conquering the world, from The Forward.
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