Each Friday in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.

Jesus had compassion for those on the margins, the forgotten, the broken, and those excluded from society. Let us not default to indifference towards the challenges facing our country and the world. Compassion and empathy are the greatest tools God has given us to transform our families, communities, and ourselves. 

When I took my seven-year-old to see Pixar’s “Elio” in July, I expected an entertaining kids’ movie with space themes. Instead, I found a poignant reflection on loneliness and the desire to belong. What are religious communities doing to respond to that need?

To me, God’s love is so enormous, so all-encompassing, and all-embracing that God’s purpose is not only to bring humankind into the fullness of God’s embrace but that the whole world might once again be freed from the chains of its present condition. That’s a kind of God that is worth following and worshipping, a God that will stop at nothing to bring back to life those things now dead.

Each Friday in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.