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- World News Read
Thursday morning news: October 8, 2026
The news of the day, including Israel marks anniversary of Oct 7 attacks, new Russian strikes kill at least 20 in Ukraine, President Trump announces seeding of “Trump accounts” for U.S. children, and Gulf Coast braces for hurricane
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School Choice Law, Phone Listening & Power Plant Rules | WORLD Radio
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If you can’t beat it
They’d repeal the new federal school-choice law if they could. But for now, some of its opponents are working to make it useful for students. WORLD’s Lauren Dunn reports on an unlikely turn in the school-choice debate.
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Same law, different rules
The Biden administration said tighter power-plant emissions rules would deliver billions in climate and health benefits. The Trump administration says repealing them will save billions in compliance costs. Both claim the Clean Air Act is on their side. WORLD’s Mary Muncy reports.
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They already know
You mention something in conversation, and suddenly the ads appear. Is your phone listening? WORLD’s Lauren Smyth reports on what advertisers can learn about you—and why the answer may be more unsettling than you think.
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They already know
You mention something in conversation, and suddenly the ads appear. Is your phone listening? WORLD’s Lauren Smyth reports on what advertisers can learn about you—and why the answer may be more unsettling than you think.
- The Christian Century - Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive Read
It’s not too late for climate action
Bill McKibben is a longtime environmental activist, the founder of Third Act, and a distinguished scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. His most recent book is Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.
- The Christian Century - Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive Read
The Gospel According to Celestial Cleaning Crew
While tidying within the Great Throne Room,An angel happened on the must-do list: ☐ Get born ☐ Keep warm ☐ Face doubts and looming doom ☐ Be miserably betrayed by one fool kiss ☐ Stand wordlessly while justice comes unglued ☐ Hang arms akimbo till the face turns blue ☐ Maintain a somber, stiff-lipped attitude ☐ Look heavenward and quote Psalm twenty-two
- Faith and Freedom Read
Christian Groups Sue Virginia State University Over New Campus Ministry Policy
A policy brought their chapters under the university’s campus ministries office and stripped them of registered student organization status. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org.
- The Christian Post | Church & Ministries Read
Churches must help ‘recapture’ worldview driving marriage, fertility crisis in US, author says
Churches, more than the government, can remedy America’s marriage and fertility crisis by restoring a vision of marriage and family as the richest source of human meaning, starting with the people in the pews, one Christian leader argues.
Clergy drawn into Advent-calendar dispute
An online dispute over the Duchess of Sussex’s £112 Advent calendar has drawn two Church of England priests into an extended exchange with some of the Duchess’s supporters, the Daily Mail reports. Newspapers in Britain say the dispute led both clergy to restrict access to their X accounts after receiving hostile replies.
Alberta bishops pastoral letter on the independence referendum
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Augustine had reservations about ‘just war’ claims L’Osservatore Romano
N.b. The official Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has published a front-page article arguing that St. Augustine had reservations about just war. Vatican News, the news agency of the Dicastery for Communication, simultaneously published translations in English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. The article follows a push by the current pontiff to change church teaching on this
Natal priest suspended after abuse allegations
The Anglican Diocese of Natal has suspended a priest accused of sexually abusing minors at St Christopher’s Parish Church in Sobantu, Pietermaritzburg, and has opened a canonical investigation alongside the criminal process. The priest’s name has not been published because the allegations remain untested before the courts.
Anglican Watch Raises Alarm Over Cathedral of St. John the Divine Finances, Spending Priorities
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6, 2026 Anglican Watch, the unofficial watchdog of the Episcopal Church, today raised serious concerns about the finances and spending priorities of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York, citing financial information showing a multimillion-dollar structural deficit alongside substantial expenditures for an Episcopal credit union, plans for a
Cuba bishop, clergy send letter to the church, Cuban people
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” —
Ep. 651: What Does Fat Bear Week Have To Do With MinistryWatch?
On today’s EXTRA episode, Christina Darnell and Warren Smith discuss news of the week that is “MinistryWatch Adjacent,” including Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week. Resources mentioned in today’s episode include: Trey’s Law (SB 30), signed by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey earlier this year, applies to civil settlement agreements signed on or after October 1,
- Public Discourse Read
A Modest Proposal to Rein in Sports Gambling
Requiring sportsbooks to treat all customers alike would satisfy liberal values of nondiscrimination and freedom while satisfying the socially conservative impulse to rein in a destructive industry.
- Baptist Standard Read
Editorial: Facing the truth when we’d rather shop
On Oct. 7, 2026, we need to face the truth we are closer to the horrors of this world than we want to think.
- The Roys Report Read
Founding Calvary Chapel church agrees to pay $12 million to alleged rape survivor
Note: This story contains details about domestic violence and sexual assault. The founding Calvary Chapel Association church in Costa Mesa, California, has agreed to pay $12 million to a woman who said she was raped 12 times by an ordained wrestling coach. Church leaders repeatedly ignored warnings that pastor Jacob Joshua Harman was a “ticking
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