Wednesday’s News & Ideas - 1/28/2026
- Theology of showing up
- Pauli Murray is a guide
- Pastor compares ICE to cartels
- Longtime Vatican journalist dies
- Clergy abuse survivors’ stories
- Challenger disaster’s impact
The ‘theology of showing up’ is making Minneapolis a holy place
National Catholic Reporter: The people of Minneapolis are responding and resisting in unspeakably brave, radically loving ways that we will speak of for years to come, writes a Hindu organizer and activist.
How to hold up both democracy and the gospel? Pauli Murray is a guide for Christians
Religion News Service: Pauli Murray, an Episcopal priest and relentless advocate for civil and human rights, provides a guide to what it means to be American Christians in these unsettling, confusing and frightening times.
Pastor and friend of family whose 5-year-old was detained by ICE speaks out: ‘ICE is acting worse than the cartels in Mexico’
CNN: Pastor Sergio Amezcua, a family friend of a 5-year-old detained by ICE, says agents used the child to draw his pregnant mother out of the house so they could arrest her. He denounces the tactic, drawing comparisons between ICE’s actions in Minnesota and cartels in Mexico.
Funeral held in Rome for John L. Allen Jr., founding editor-in-chief of Crux
Crux: A funeral Mass was celebrated for legendary Vatican and church affairs reporter John L. Allen Jr., who died Jan. 22.
Clergy sex abuse survivors in Buffalo Diocese share their stories
WKBW: The emotional and graphic testimonies marked a significant moment for those who have waited years for this opportunity.
The Spark
Why the Challenger disaster haunts the collective memory
If you weren’t around in 1986, the significance of the Challenger disaster in the collective memory of your elders may elude you, says Axios Salt Lake City.
