Tuesday’s News & Ideas - 9/2/2025
- Inside ‘trad family’ movement
- Catholic schools after shooting
- Bible society funds AI assistant
- Blasphemy of national Christianity
- Active Clubs
- Ice cream truck history
Book burning, Latin prayers — and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement
The Guardian: The movement towards simple, Christian living can be a yearning for order in a chaotic age. It’s also alarmingly retrograde.
After Annunciation shooting, Catholic schools pray, prepare drills in sanctuaries
Religion News Service: While many school leaders have become resigned to the necessity of preparing for potential school shootings, it was shocking to Catholics across the country to learn of an attack while students were gathered for worship.
American Bible Society funds AI assistant, YouTube shows to boost Gen Z Bible use
Religion News Service: At Los Angeles Pacific University, scholars were awarded $15,000 to introduce a ‘Bible Engagement Assistant’ that builds on ‘Spark,’ an AI course assistant that the online university already uses.
The blasphemy of national Christianity*
The Christian Century: When push comes to shove, for nationalist Christians, ethnicity comes first.
Active Clubs are white supremacy’s new, dangerous frontier
The Conversation: Active Clubs frame themselves as innocuous workout groups on digital platforms and decentralized networks to recruit, radicalize and prepare members for racist violence.
The Spark
99 Problems: The ice cream truck’s surprising history
From crime panics to TikTok, summer’s favorite vehicle has driven a bumpy road, Longreads says.
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