The Florida High School Athletic Association's board of directors has voted 14-2 to remove questions about high school athletes' menstrual history from a required health form for participation in high school athletics. (McCammon, NPR)
Read MoreThe Church of England is considering how to refer to God without assigning a gender, its governing body says. But the church's General Synod adds that while it's been exploring the idea of adopting new language in recent years, no changes are looming. "This is nothing new," a spokesperson for the Church of England said in a note to NPR. "Christians have recognized since ancient times that God is neither male nor female." (Chappell, NPR)
Read MoreFor the first time in its history, General Synod, the Church of England's legislative body, voted on Thursday for vicars to be allowed to give same-sex couples, including those in civil marriages, prayers of blessing. The Archbishop of Canterbury heralded the vote as "a new beginning". (Somerville, The Telegraph)
Read MoreElon Musk’s restoration of 10 Twitter accounts that were banned under the platform’s previous management has generated enough engagement since they returned to the platform to likely generate $19 million in advertising revenue annually, a nonprofit dedicated to countering hate speech online has concluded. (Lorenz, The Washington Post)
Read MoreWhen the developer, Avalanche Software, began work several years ago on an immersive role-playing game set in Hogwarts, it may not have anticipated that perhaps the biggest challenge of all would stem from the series’s celebrated author. (Jacobs, The New York Times)
Read MoreA new survey finds that fewer than a third of Americans, or 29%, qualify as Christian nationalists, and of those, two-thirds define themselves as white evangelicals. The survey of 6,212 Americans by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution is the largest yet to gauge the size and scope of Christian nationalist beliefs. (Shimron, Religion News Service)
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