Zia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesman, has called [churches becoming mosques] “incendiary” and pledged to change planning laws to prevent Christian places of worship from being adopted as Islamic ones, pointing to 41 instances listed on Wikipedia. (Burgess, The Times UK)
Read More“It’s something that’s available to all of us.” Proponents call the “something” the “success sequence.” The steps are simple: Graduate from high school. Find a full-time job. Get married before having kids. (Lumpkin & Somasundaram, The Washington Post)
Read MoreA Gallup poll released late last summer showed that only a little more than half of adults — 54 percent — were drinking. That’s down four percent from 2024. (Hudak, Rolling Stone)
Read MoreThe death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after almost 37 years in power raises paramount questions about Iran’s future. The contours of a complex succession process began to take shape the morning after Khamenei’s killing in an airstrike campaign by the United States and Israel. (Gambrell, AP News)
Read MoreA wave of recent local ordinances in large liberal bastions like Portland, Ore., but also smaller communities like Astoria, Ore., which has a population of 10,181, would confer the beginning of legal protections to polyamorous relationships. (Griffin, The New York Times)
Read MoreThis week is National Random Acts of Kindness Week, and if you're in need of some kindness, a pep-talk line that includes nuggets of wisdom from elementary school students from kindergarten to sixth grade could help. (Gomez, USA Today)
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