Dietrich Bonhoeffer opened his book on the Psalms by asking how human prayers entered the Word of God. He answered not with abstract theories of inspiration but by placing the incarnate Christ at the center of every psalm.

On July 17 the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm filed suit against the state of New York, whose Medical Aid in Dying statute compels every healthcare provider to inform patients of the option to end their own lives. Failure to deliver this information exposes the sisters to fines and sanctions under a law that claims to respect conscience yet withholds any real protection.

In 2024 the United Methodist Church General Conference struck the fifty-two-year clause declaring homosexual practice incompatible with Christian teaching, even as African members formed the new numerical majority after more than seven thousand American congregations departed.

Bishop John Barres of Rockville Centre and a community of Catholic sisters have filed suit against the state of New York to block mandates that would compel their participation in physician-assisted suicide. The plaintiffs declare they will never submit to what the bishop called the culture of death.