“The main thrust of the whole meeting was to help us religious leaders understand the initiatives well enough to go back to our various communities and share how they can get on board,” explained the Rev. Betty Holley, a presiding elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Ohio Conference and professor of environmental ethics at Payne Theological Seminary. (Fodor, Religion News Service)
Read MoreMinouche Shafik, the first woman and first person of color to lead Columbia, announced her resignation amid lingering bitterness among students and faculty over the school’s forced removal of protesters from an encampment and a building they had taken over on the campus in Upper Manhattan. (Sentner, Politico)
Read More[There is a] growing and, for churches, a potentially worrisome trend of young women eschewing religion. Their pace of departure has overtaken men, recent studies show, reversing patterns of previous generations. (Ramirez, USA Today)
Read MoreArizona and Missouri voters will get to decide in November whether to add the right to an abortion to their states’ constitution. (Yamat, Los Angeles Times)
Read MoreCurrently, 11% of U.S. adults say they have smoked cigarettes in the past week, matching the historical low measured in 2022 (and nearly matched at 12% in 2023). When Gallup first asked about cigarette smoking in 1944, 41% of U.S. adults said they smoked. (Jones, Gallup)
Read MoreThe trend is funny, helpful, demure, and mindful. It's led to a flood of videos of people using the terms "demure," "mindful," and "cutesy" on TikTok, Twitter, and even offline. (Silva, Mashable)
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