Wednesday’s News & Ideas - 10/22/2025
- Anglican Communion split
- Clergy arrests at ICE protests
- New gospel music museum
- World Council of Churches meet
- Protecting Black history
- The internet is going to break
GAFCON creates Global Anglican Communion
The Living Church: Boldly announcing that “the future has arrived,” GAFCON, the Global South-based conservative renewal movement, declared a total severing of connections with Canterbury and the Instruments of Communion in an October 16 communiqué.
After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago
Religion News Service: More than 210 mostly Chicago-area clergy, representing a range of liberal and conservative traditions, have signed a letter criticizing ICE titled “Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview.”
New Museum of Christian & Gospel Music honors a diversity of music with a message
NPR: The museum opened in early October in Nashville, the first of its kind in the U.S. designed to celebrate the breadth of Christian music.
Historic faith conference gathers global Church leaders in Egypt
Religion Unplugged: The World Council of Churches is preparing to host the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order starting on Friday, a significant moment in the century-long journey of ecumenical dialogue.
This museum director won't let Trump win the war on Black history*
Sojourners: Amidst the challenges of the government shutdown which leaves D.C.’s Smithsonian museums closed, and Trump’s continual demands to control their presentation of history, the faith-based director of the International African American Museum explains how, as a liberation theologian, he approaches the task of museum work.
The Spark
The internet is going to break again
The Amazon outage on Monday* revealed just how consolidated the web has become, writes The Atlantic.
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