Wednesday’s News & Ideas - 6/4/2025
- Health care advocates arrested
- Christian sect going extinct
- Sean Feucht mismanaged funds
- Boulder attack & antisemitism
- Jerusalem Christians face violence
- A food reckoning is coming
Faith leaders, health care advocates arrested while protesting GOP budget bill in Capitol
Religion News Service: Nine people — including a wheelchair user who said potential cuts to health care programs would imperil her future — were charged with “crowding, obstructing and incommoding.”
‘A huge loss.’ In remote Nagasaki islands, a rare version of Christianity heads toward extinction*
The Washington Post: On the rural islands of Nagasaki a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns and martyred missionaries and believers.
Sean Feucht accused of mismanaging millions in ministry revenue*
Christianity Today: A new report claims that the preacher and right-wing protester mismanaged funds and avoided accountability as his ministries’ annual revenue shot up into the millions.
After Boulder attack, American Jews are afraid
Religion News Service: American Jewish leaders say they are alarmed by a resurgence of violent antisemitism. And they are scared.
Christians in Jerusalem face restrictions, violence amid holy celebrations
National Catholic Reporter: Palestinian Christians, like many others in the West Bank, must navigate a complex system of Israeli-imposed movement restrictions to access holy sites and basic services. Attacks on the community increased last year.
The Spark
A food reckoning is coming
Our diets* are awful for the planet, writes Michael Grunwald for The Atlantic. But we can’t simply abandon food.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
