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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.

	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.
	The State of Belief The release of a new report promoting an inclusive, pluralistic vision of this foundational American value.
	Complexified (RNS) — A theologian and technologist is building Black AI for the inner life, where healing begins with imagination.

Peter C. Mancall

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

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

Charles J. Russo

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

(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.

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.

Pope promotes Italian nun to top migrant role in his first major appointment of a woman to Holy See

Susanna Granieri

ROME (AP) — With the appointment of Italian Sister Alessandra Smerilli, Leo appears to be following suit of his predecessor, Pope Francis, who made a point of promoting women to top-level management positions within the Holy See as part of his response to calls by women for greater decision-making roles in the church.

Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks

Melanie Lidman and Jon Gambrell

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without Iran's oversight has sparked days of crossfire. A multinational maritime body overseen by the U.S. Navy said Saturday it would expand a route near Oman for inbound and outbound traffic.

Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide

Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The step, which still needs approval in Parliament, reflects deteriorating ties between Israel and Turkey.

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1	opinion My father carried his Holocaust story his entire life. He never asked us to carry it, too.
2	news Asbury Theological Seminary cut by United Methodist Church over same-sex marriage issue
3	news Who belongs in America? Five faith leaders on immigration, identity and America's 250th
4	news How women pastors became public enemy No. 1 in the SBC
5	news Which Bible passages are in Texas’ proposed student reading list? Here’s what the sections reveal.