“Just as we stand and reach with our arms outspread towards the sky as we embrace the divine, our ancestors, and our connection with the natural world, we need to recall reality: we have the power to say no.”
Arts & Culture
New York’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit returns looted Roman artifacts to Turkey
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The New York County District Attorney repatriated several artifacts to Turkey this week, including a marble head of the Athenian orator Demosthenes and a larger than life bronze statue of an emperor.
Living
The World: reflecting on the Fool’s Journey in the dark time of the year
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“What is the light in our lives? Who brings joy and pleasure to our being?” writes Clio Ajana. “Despite the rash of sales for Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, there is more to life than shopping.”
News
Executive Order Reforms Child-Welfare System, Raising Concerns about Religious Gatekeeping
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A new executive order aims to modernize the nation’s child-welfare system, but advocates warn its emphasis on faith-based partnerships and “basic biological truths” may open the door to religious gatekeeping and discrimination against minority faiths and LGBTQ+ families.
Arts & Culture
Review: The Carpenter’s Son
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“The premise, a Biblical horror film exploring Jesus’s adolescence, is apparently treated by some as shocking,” writes Manny Tejeda Moreno. “To me, that simply confirms they’ve never read the Bible.”
News
Ninth Circuit Remand Ends Satanic Temple Challenge to Idaho Abortion Ban
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A federal judge has permanently dismissed The Satanic Temple’s challenge to Idaho’s abortion bans, finding the group lacked standing and that no amendment could save its claims, ending years of litigation over religious freedom and reproductive rights.