As the 60th anniversary of [C.S. Lewis’s] death nears, it felt timely to retrace Lewis’s steps around the city that so greatly affected his life and works. (Higginbotham, The New York TImes)
Read MoreFacebook parent company Meta has funded a new platform designed to address [parental] concerns, allowing young people to proactively scan a select group of websites for their images online and have them taken down. (Nix, The Washington Post)
Read MoreConservative activists are coordinating a multimillion-dollar national campaign to make ESG the next CRT. Their goal: Transform the acronym for environmental, social and corporate-governance investing into a rallying cry against “woke capitalism,” much the way critical race theory became shorthand for broader criticisms about how race is taught in schools. (Bykowicz & Au-Yeung, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreThe bill would mean no hormone therapy, no surgeries and no puberty blockers — with two exceptions. One is for intersex kids who aren’t easily assigned a gender at birth. Another would be a temporary exception for trans kids who are already taking hormones before the law goes into effect July 1. After that, minors have until March of 2024 to stop their treatments. (Bacallao, WPLN)
Read MoreMeta acknowledged the existence of the violent videos but a spokesperson said they were a small percentage of the platform’s total content. According to the company’s most recent community standards enforcement report, for every 10,000 content views, an estimate of about three contain graphic violence, an increase from the previous quarter. (Lorenz, The Washington Post)
Read MoreIndia’s church is exhausted by the surge of anticonversion laws and accusations of illegal proselytization. They’re tired of mobs driving out Christians from their villages and the possibility that many face property destruction and personal violence. Perhaps most significantly, they’re angry at a government that passively enables these actions at best and actively foments them at worst. (Kaur, Christianity Today)
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