The longtime leader on Spotify ranks as the top show in the U.S. on Apple Podcasts, based on 2025 listenership, with his interview with Elon Musk also charting highly. He took over the spot from The Daily, which is now the second most popular podcast on Apple, and, in turn, saw their episode “Trump, Again” also rank highly. (Huston, The Hollywood Reporter)
Read MoreFeel connected to a celebrity you’ve never met in person? "Parasocial" has been crowned Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year, highlighting the rise in “unhealthy” and “one-sided” relationships with celebrities, influencers and even AI chatbots. (Mouriquand, Euronews)
Read MoreThe Church of England officiated just over one in 10 opposite-sex marriages in 2023 – its lowest share on record outside of the pandemic. It recorded 23,004 marriages in 2023 in England and Wales – the lowest since records began in 1837, excluding the 2020 and 2021 Covid years. In 2022 the Church carried out 12.9 per cent of marriages – down from more than a fifth in 2003 and more than a third in 1973. (Swerling & Corfe, The Telegraph)
Read MoreA federal judge ordered some public school districts in Texas on Tuesday to remove Ten Commandment displays from their classroom walls by next month, a victory for families who had argued that the posters infringed on their religious freedom. (Salhotra, The New York Times)
Read MoreU.S. high schoolers are less likely now than in the past to say they want to get married someday. And a smaller share today say that they’re very likely to have children if they do get married, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of survey data from the University of Michigan. (Braga, Pew Research Center)
Read MoreAfter decades of fierce controversies over sexuality and theology in the Anglican Communion, some leaders of a conservative coalition say it’s time to make a final break from what has long been one of the world’s largest Protestant church families. That would make a slow-growing Anglican schism complete — if it happens. (Smith & Muhumuza, AP News)
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