my date asked me why this pic is my phone lock screen and I had to spend 5 minutes explaining who g herbo and farrakhan are which was an odd exercise because it didn't answer her original question at all

Our news roundup is here early for the holiday weekend! It features insights from Robert P. Jones - Hidden Roots of White Supremacy, Rev. Angela Denker, Amanda Tyler, Drew Strait, michael casey, Michelle Boorstein, Fiona André, Emily Belz, and more. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/weekly-round…

Armed gangs have torched Haiti’s famed Oloffson hotel | Miami Herald miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…

🎙️ Congratulations to Olivia Ndubuisi, ’25 M.A. Science and Politics (Olivia), the 2025 Joan Konner Program in the Journalism of Ideas Fellow!

Parishioners battle diocese over closure of historic Brooklyn church – by RNS' newest national reporter, Fiona Murphy (Fiona Murphy) religionnews.com/2025/07/07/bro…

“Hindu supremacists have empowered the very right-wing forces that endanger the South Asian community, and now want us to fight each other,” said Prachi Patankar of Savera: United Against Supremacy. “But if Hindutva wins, Hindus lose too.” Read the full piece here: jewishcurrents.org/auditing-the-h…

Fr. Hennen has worked for years with Courage, a ministry that encourages people with “same-sex attractions” to live in chastity. Highly recommend following journalists instead of influencers if you want more nuance and context :)

I am announcing that I am leaving the office early on biblical grounds

Yesterday the CDC confirmed the highest measles infection count in the US since 1992 - and since measles was eliminated in 2000. Here’s why we are seeing the surge: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Pope Leo XIV's latest US bishop appointment sparks mixed reactions over LGBTQ+ outreach religionnews.com/2025/07/10/pop…

Nice try bro but I said "famously". That means I don’t have to cite any sources

The Sebeiba festival, a 3000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town in the Sahara. My piece for The Associated Press : apnews.com/article/algeri…

A year after the assassination attempt of then-candidate Donald Trump, I wrote about the people and communities forever altered by the most high-profile act of political violence in decades: post-gazette.com/news/politics-…

In the middle of a "forcing party" where friends and I are forcing one another to do the things that we've been avoiding So far: • A passport has been filed for • An inbox has been zero'd • A personal website has been created &more I recommend this format!

Via The Associated Press: Leaders of Holy Land churches condemn Israeli settler violence during a West Bank visit —> apnews.com/article/west-b…

Today is Assata Shakur’s birthday, and few people know she was once a Catholic. In the 1990s, she wrote to Pope St. John Paul II to educate him about the Black American condition and to advocate for the oppressed Wrote about it for Black Catholic Messenger 👇🏾👇🏾 blackcatholicmessenger.org/assata-shakurs…

goodreads will do anything but add half star ratings

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