Thursday's News & Ideas - 3/27/2025
- 20% leave childhood faith
- Paula White sells Easter blessings
- Obergefell under attack
- Fast fashion flood in Appalachia
- Mahmoud Khalil & Christian nationalism
- Generosity can destroy relationships
Switching my religion: 20% around the globe have left their childhood faith
Religion Unplugged: An estimated one-fifth of adults around the world have left the faith group in which they were raised — with Christianity and Buddhism experiencing especially large losses.
Trump’s faith adviser selling seven Easter blessings for $1,000 gift
Baptist News Global: With a portion of Exodus 23, Paula White takes God’s promise to the Children of Israel and applies it today to those who give her $1,000 or more.
Abortion fight won, conservative Christians mimic Dobbs tactics to go after same-sex marriage
Religion News Service: A multistate effort is spitting out legislation and lawsuits aimed at testing the Supreme Court justices’ commitment to Obergefell v. Hodges.
Donated clothes still being sorted in Appalachia*
Christianity Today: Six months after Hurricane Helene, the flood of fast fashion has yet to recede.
What Mahmoud Khalil’s detention says about white Christian nationalism and the politics of repression
Religion Dispatches: We must pay attention to the role that white Christian nationalism has played in fostering the twin roots of Khalil’s arrest: McCarthyism and the historical intolerance for dissent, writes a PhD student at Columbia.
The Spark
Why being generous can destroy a relationship
“As a psychologist, I’ve seen it time and again* in my practice,” writes Sarah Gundle for Slate.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
