US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 (whites only)

US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
The Guardian: The low number represents a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution.
Religion News Service: We practice our faith by welcoming refugees. Now, that work is at risk.

The reverent, subversive Gilead*
The Christian Century: Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer-winning novel speaks unflinchingly of God, grace, sacred luminosity and humility. This reads a lot differently now than it did 20 years ago.

Move over, gender studies: The conservative tide coming for US universities
The Guardian: Deeming universities too leftwing, outside donors and state governments are sponsoring curricula that center the classics, Christianity and the “great books” of western civilization.

Funding SNAP: Even religious leaders are divided over how best to provide for the poor
Religion News Service: Many faith leaders say the charge to help the poor is clear in Scripture, but the religious community is not monolithic on the issue.

Latter-day Saints are having fewer children. Church officials are taking note
NPR: In the early 1980s, Latter-day Saints were having an extra kid and a half compared to the rest of the U.S. on average. They still have more children, but their families are shrinking.