Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for December 26, 2025. In today’s top stories, U.S. news saw a journalist reflecting on a joy-filled assignment in Japan exploring the influence of studying abroad on Black men, while President Trump escalated the Venezuela standoff with a ‘blockade’ against tankers. Domestically, Vice President JD Vance received […]
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December 27
175 BCE (Tevet 3585): This day
marked the completion of the Septuagint
translation of the Bible into the Greek language. According to a letter from
Aristeas to Philocrates, 72 sages, (six from each Israelite tribe) were brought
to by Ptole…
Churches often struggle to determine a fair price when they rent space to community groups. Partners for Sacred Places, an organization helping congregations develop creative community partnerships, says the hard costs of maintaining any shared space i…
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