Tuesday’s News & Ideas - 6/10/2025
- Gen Z getting more religious?
- Evangelical rift over immigration
- In Bible, gender is not binary
- Global religious landscape
- Craig Dykstra dies
- America’s death chambers
Why is Gen Z getting more religious? We asked them.
Vox: Gen Z is reversing a major trend in religion.
In evangelical churches, a rift over Trump’s immigration policies
Religion News Service: Historically one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal demographics, evangelicals are divided over just how far to go with immigration crackdowns.
In the Bible, gender is not binary*
The Christian Century: The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.
How the global religious landscape changed from 2010 to 2020
Pew Research Center: Muslims grew fastest; Christians lagged behind global population increase.
Craig Dykstra, Lilly Endowment executive who supported congregational vitality, dies at 78
Religion News Service: Dykstra served as vice president of religion at the Lilly Endowment in Indianapolis, where he was responsible for overseeing the nation’s largest grant-making program in religion.
The Spark
Inside America’s death chambers
Elizabeth Bruenig writes for The Atlantic about what years of witnessing executions taught her about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption.*
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