Wednesday’s News & Ideas - 4/1/2026
- SCOTUS allows conversion therapy
- NY Episcopal reparations
- Judge on Johnson Amendment
- Exodus & Civil War
- Religious ‘renewal’
- Wong Kim Ark case
Supreme Court opens door to controversial conversion therapy
NPR: Siding with a Christian counselor in Colorado, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out the state’s law banning conversion therapy.
Baptist News Global: 3 ways churches may respond to the violence of conversion therapy
NY Episcopal Diocese outlines plan for $1.2M racial reparations fund
Religion News Service: New York Episcopalians profited from the transatlantic slave trade and were “uniquely implicated in the odious institution and in anti-Black policies and practices that extend through generations,” according to a new report.
Judge rejects Johnson Amendment settlement, keeping ban on pastors endorsing candidates
Religion News Service: The ruling caps a decades-long battle to overturn a ban on houses of worship endorsing candidates.
A plague on both your houses
ARC: The punishments of the Pharaoh and his country served as an inescapable refrain for the abolitionist movement.
The real religious ‘renewal’ happening in Gen Z*
The Atlantic: Some pastors and politicians claim that a Christian revival is afoot among young Americans. Nationwide data tell a different story.
The Spark
He won birthright citizenship for all. His own family never knew.
Wong Kim Ark brought his case* to the Supreme Court in 1898. But some of his descendants didn’t even know his name until about 15 years ago, The New York Times says.
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