As Christian artists embrace a wider variety of sounds and market songs savvily on social media, they are rapidly widening their reach. Faith-based music can go viral just like rap or pop songs, and it gains an additional boost from its close relationship with country, which currently dominates the charts. (Leight, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreFinancial well-being can have an outsize imprint on older Americans’ quality of life, affecting their physical health, social life and even cognitive skills, new research shows. (Najmabadi, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThere’s an inherent theatricality to church, and a furtive spirituality to theater. In form, they’re similar: Everybody crowds into a room, usually sits facing the same direction, and focuses on a central action — at least for a while. Many contemporary theatermakers trace their love of the art to a childhood spent in pews or choir robes. (Wilkinson, The New York Times)
Read MoreA newsreader who went viral after she made a face while changing the word “pregnant people” to “women” during a live broadcast has been found to have broken BBC impartiality rules. Martine Croxall made the expression as she changed her script in an introduction to an interview with an assistant professor about groups most at risk during UK heatwaves. (Parker, The Telegraph)
Read MoreWhen you think of big families, one of your first thoughts might be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called Mormons. In the early 1980s, they were having an extra kid and a half compared to the rest of the U.S. on average. Latter-day Saints still have more children, but their families are shrinking. (Hulet, NPR)
Read MoreNoah and Olivia topped the list of most popular names for babies for 2025 once again, with Liam and Oliver following closely behind in popularity for boys and Amelia and Sophie for girls, new data by BabyCenter found. (Shafiq, USA Today)
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