Another week, another batch of surprises. A collection of news stories for SAGLRROILYBYGTH:
White evangelicals and racism: Are they or aren’t they? A review of Jemar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise at TGC.
- And what does this Twitter response tell us? At TWOILH.
A Parks-n-Rec moment in South Bend: Notre Dame decides to cover its Columbus murals, at IHE.

From Pawnee, not South Bend….
School superintendent charged with felonies after using her insurance to get med care for a student. At CBS4.
The original dream of public ed is dead, at TC.
The teacher crunch: When teachers can’t afford to live in their cities, at HP.
Old-school creationism in Indiana, at AU.
- Why do creationists ask for things they know they can’t get? Here at ILYBYGTH.
The OTHER split at evangelical colleges, at RIP.
a whopping 85% of incoming students to evangelical colleges and universities find it at least moderately important that their campuses are welcoming toward LGBT people, with 44% finding it very important.

Welcoming campuses…?
Why did eugenics persist in US textbooks? Sex, at TH.
Christian persecution update: Pence at NBC. HT: RC.
Ben Shapiro reveals my secular plot to discredit religion (19:30).
- Oh, wait, no he doesn’t. Here at ILYBYGTH.
Politicians split, leaving the rest of us in the middle, at the Economist.
- Can teachers’ unions bring us together? We ask here at ILYBYGTH.
What if politicians could act more like teachers’ unions?