Wednesday’s News & Ideas - 5/28/2025
- Fuller keeps LGBTQ stance
- Gareld Rollins dies
- Can Pope keep citizenship?
- Phil Robertson dies
- SCOTUS rejects Apache plea
- Why bad ideas go viral
Fuller Seminary reaffirms historic LGBTQ stance*
Christianity Today: Some at the evangelical institution wanted to allow same-sex relationships, but trustees voted to maintain “historic theological understanding.”
Gareld Duane Rollins, whose lawsuit sparked a Southern Baptist abuse reckoning, has died
Religion News Service: Rollins, who had long suffered from health issues, accused SBC leader and GOP activist Paul Pressler of years of abuse.
Can Pope Leo retain US citizenship while leading a foreign government?
The Guardian: The US State Department says on its website that it may “actively review” status of Americans who “serve as a foreign head of state.”
‘Duck Dynasty’ patriarch and conservative cultural icon Phil Robertson dies
The Associated Press: Phil Robertson, who turned his small duck calling interest in the sportsman’s paradise of northern Louisiana into a big business and conservative cultural phenomenon, died Sunday, according to his family. He was 79.
The Supreme Court rejects a plea to block a copper mine on land in Arizona that’s sacred to Apaches
The Associated Press: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred.
The Spark
Why good ideas die quietly and bad ideas go viral
A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness,* The New Yorker says.
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