Thursday’s News & Ideas - 2/26/2026
- Churches & online outrage
- Churches in TX Senate race
- How Black Christians define family
- Calls for ‘human dignity’
- Shooting incidents & Ramadan
- Man who stole infinity
Should churches respond to online outrage?*
The Presbyterian Outlook: A church quoted Bad Bunny. The comments turned combative. What followed led Trip Porch to think about Jesus and Nicodemus, and what faithful engagement looks like in the digital age.
How two churches forged Jasmine Crockett’s and James Talarico’s politics
The Texas Tribune: In the Senate Democratic primary, Talarico has made his church’s ethos of compassion central to his campaign, while Jasmine Crockett is tapping into the civic power of Black churches.
Religious ties shape how Black Americans define family, Pew study finds
Religion News Service: Black Christians are more likely than religiously unaffiliated to consider nonrelatives a part of their families.
Catholic clergy call for ‘human dignity’ in immigration enforcement*
The New York Times: Eighteen bishops and archbishops from border areas issued a strongly worded statement hours before President Trump’s State of the Union address.
Shooting incidents unsettle Muslims as Ramadan begins
Religion News Service: Muslim advocates have warned that recent Islamophobic rhetoric from national political leaders can make targets of community members and their houses of worship.
The Spark
The man who stole infinity
In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism, Quanta Magazine says.
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