Dreading holiday arguments about religion and politics?

More states are testing the limits around religion in public schools*
Education Week: A wave of policies mixing public education and religion are challenging the church-state divide.

Food banks thank God for bacon, buying in bulk, and local support*
Christianity Today: With grocery prices up, ministries across the country stretch to feed millions of hungry families during the holidays.

Marquette University uses religious exemption to squash unionizing efforts
National Catholic Reporter: Pro-union faculty and their supporters say the university’s move goes against the school's own mission and Catholic identity.

Dreading holiday arguments about religion and politics? Here’s some advice
Sojourners: In my experience of traveling home every year over the past decade, I have found a few helpful paths for navigating holiday gatherings.

Q&A: 'Wicked' author Gregory Maguire on souls, saints and religion in Oz
Religion News Service: In the 1995 novel that inspired the musical and film, the Wicked Witch of the West is a green-skinned child of a minister exploited for his missionary endeavors.