Thursday’s News & Ideas - 5/29/2025
- Anniversary of Nicaea
- Israeli nationalists march
- Joe Rogan goes to church
- Venerating Teresa
- Alasdair MacIntyre’s book
- Off-world agriculture
On anniversary of the first Council of Nicaea, Christian leaders seek to return to ecumenism
Religion News Service: Christian leaders stress that the council and its anniversary still have relevance in the modern day, despite theological divides.
Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ during annual procession through Jerusalem
The Associated Press: Chanting “Death to Arabs” and singing “May your village burn,” groups of young Israeli Jews made their way through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday during an annual march marking Israel’s conquest of the eastern part of the city.
‘I’m sticking with Jesus’: Joe Rogan is reportedly attending a Texas church*
Chron: A Texas pastor sees the popular podcast host’s church attendance as a sign of Christian reawakening.
Tens of thousands flock to see a Spanish saint’s remains more than 440 years after her death
The Associated Press: Catholic worshippers have been flocking to Alba de Tormes, a town ringed by rolling pastures in western Spain where the remains of Saint Teresa of Ávila, the Spanish saint, mystic and 16th-century religious reformer, were on display this month.
Alasdair MacIntyre retains his power to shock*
The Christian Century: Reading After Virtue as a student was a revelation. As his colleague, I continued to learn from him, Jean Porter writes.
The Spark
The plan to send plant-filled ‘gardens’ into orbit
Off-world agriculture* has long seemed experimental, but that could soon change thanks to a collaboration between a design firm and a space architecture nonprofit, Wired says.
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