Thursday's News & Ideas - 1/29/2026
- Inside Midwest detention center
- CBF supports bombed synagogue
- Abp. of Canterbury confirmed
- Nigerian peacebuilding threatened
- A church of cringe
- AI: Should we build this?
Inside the Midwest’s largest immigration detention center with a retired pastor
Michigan Public Radio: Since September, retired evangelical pastor Dale Dalman has been driving from his home to the North Lake Processing Center, sometimes two, three times a week.
The Maine Monitor: A pastor searched for a missing congregant. He found a car with the keys on the floor
Great Rivers Fellowship supports bombed synagogue
Baptist News Global: A network of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi expressed grief and solidarity with a Jewish congregation targeted by an arsonist earlier this month.
The Guardian view on the new archbishop of Canterbury: How to heal a divided church and nation?
The Guardian: The worrying rise of Christian nationalism should be top of a crowded in-tray for Dame Sarah Mullally, who was confirmed Wednesday as the first female archbishop of Canterbury.
Trump’s framing of Nigeria insurgency as a war on Christians risks undermining interfaith peacebuilding
The Conversation: Calling the insurgency in Nigeria a persecution of Christians — as the U.S. administration has repeatedly done — is simplistic and ill-informed.
A church of cringe
Mockingbird: From its very beginnings, Christianity has been a religion of cringe.
The Spark
When AI can make anything, choosing what to make is everything
In 2026, the question “Should we build this?” will matter more than “Can we build this?” says Fast Company.
