Wednesday’s News & Ideas - 7/22/2026
- Immigration activism as gospel
- Churches & racial diversity
- Abuse survivors write to SBC
- Terminated research grants
- Survey of Jewish Americans
- Antarctic guide
Inside a Brooklyn church where immigration activism is the gospel
Religion News Service: From encrypted apps to legal clinics, how an immigrant-majority church is responding to protect its congregation.
New study shows that fewer churches aim for racial diversity
Religion Unplugged: A Lifeway Research study of U.S. Protestant pastors finds churches have seemingly grown more diverse, while pastors have grown less likely to see that diversity as a goal and preach about racial reconciliation.
SBC leaders called an abuse crisis a hoax. Abuse survivors want an apology.
Religion News Service: In an open letter, a group of survivors and advocates say that comments by SBC President Willy Rice and Texas pastor Jack Graham make it harder to address the issue of abuse in churches.
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
The Associated Press: Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of the Trump administration’s priorities.
Takeaways from the AP-NORC poll of more than 1,000 Jewish Americans
The Associated Press: The survey of 1,022 Jewish adults offers a rare detailed accounting of a key demographic that sits at the very center of some of the nation’s most divisive political debates.
The Spark
‘I can’t work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore’: Why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs
Watching climate change unfold while helping thousands more visitors reach the continent eventually led them to leave the jobs they’d once dreamed of, The Conversation says.
