Tuesday's News & Ideas - 6/28/2022

How religious colleges view the Dobbs decision
Inside Higher Ed: Some religious colleges are celebrating the demise of federal abortion rights while others are taking a more nuanced stance. A rare few are condemning the Supreme Court’s decision outright.
Slate: Colleges in red states are preparing for a post-Roe crisis*
Los Angeles Times: With Roe dead, anti-abortion religious groups insist they want to help mothers*

We’re seeing bipartisanship in action on global religious freedom
The Hill: This week, political and religious leaders from around the world will attend the International Religious Freedom Summit. It is the largest civil society-led conference in the world focused on advancing international religious freedom and highlights the bipartisanship that has characterized the growth of the international religious freedom movement over the last 25 years.

This Pride Month, Catholic Church shows clear, if subtle, shifts toward LGBTQ welcome
Religion News Service: From welcoming trans women at the Vatican to promoting LGBTQ outreach around the world, some advocates say Pope Francis has created a space for inclusion without fear.

At Canadian megachurch, one abuse investigation spurs another and another
Christianity Today: As former pastor Bruxy Cavey appears in an Ontario court, the reckoning continues at The Meeting House.

Abandoning God: Christianity plummets as ‘non-religious’ surges in census*
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia has become strikingly more godless over the past decade, with the latest census data showing the proportion of self-identified Christians dropping below 50 percent for the first time and a soaring number of people describing themselves as “non-religious.”

The Spark

Do we need a better understanding of ‘progress’?
A growing and influential intellectual movement aims to understand why human progress happens – and how to speed it up, says the BBC.

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