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	Saved by the City Eat the Rich! Jesus Had Something to Say About That + Malcolm Foley Katelyn Beaty and Roxanne Stone Katelyn and Roxy talk to Malcom Foley about the insidious legacy of greed on countries, systems and individuals.
	Martini Judaism Is it time to retire the term ‘Zionism’? Jeffrey Salkin (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	The State of Belief Religious Liberty for All: Celebrating This Founding Freedom at America 250 Paul Brandeis Raushenbush The release of a new report promoting an inclusive, pluralistic vision of this foundational American value.

	Saved by the City Katelyn and Roxy talk to Malcom Foley about the insidious legacy of greed on countries, systems and individuals.
	Martini Judaism (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	Complexified (RNS) — A theologian and technologist is building Black AI for the inner life, where healing begins with imagination.

David Mislin

2026 isn’t the first time Christians have tried to claim the United States as their own

(The Conversation) — From the Civil War to the Cold War, existential fears have fueled claims that America is a Christian nation, a historian of US Christianity explains.

Bridget Moix

Renewable energy investments are a moral and economic imperative

(RNS) — Ordinary families are being asked to carry the costs of an energy system that enriches a few while leaving communities everywhere vulnerable to conflict, instability and rising prices.

Peter C. Mancall

The US founders’ other revolutionary choice: Separating religion and government

(The Conversation) — European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.

Beyond Disney: A 1616 portrait of Pocahontas shows how English colonizers saw Indigenous Americans

Peter C. Mancall

(The Conversation) — The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.

Why a Supreme Court case over a haircut could be a setback for religious liberty

Charles J. Russo

(The Conversation) — Landor v. Louisiana highlights the religious rights of the nearly 2 million people imprisoned in the US – and how challenging it can be to protect those rights.

2026 isn’t the first time Christians have tried to claim the United States as their own

David Mislin

(The Conversation) — From the Civil War to the Cold War, existential fears have fueled claims that America is a Christian nation, a historian of US Christianity explains.

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