1. If you pray, keep this girl and her family in your prayer:

2. From Susan Crabtree at the Washington Free Beacon: 100 Iranian Christians Waiting to Enter U.S. Could Be Sent Back to Iran This Week

3. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on the politics of hope:

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4. This court ruling is good news for free speech and pregnancy-care centers. Link to Mirror of Justice.

Relatedly, from Alliance Defending Freedom

5. Francis X. Maier in First Things: The Most Important Thinker We Don’t Know

6. From McCay Coppins in The Atlantic: Thomas Monson, the late Mormon church president, stressed the importance of community in an increasingly atomized nation.

7. I would know this monstrance anywhere – even on the R train. The story is somewhat unbelievable. Gives me hope for that missal I lost in a cab some months back (well, maybe that is a lost cause). (Put your name and number on things!)

8. This cultural festival has become an annual event. I highly recommend.

Here’s the full schedule. I’m most looking forward to hearing Stephen McDonald’s son. (If you don’t know about his dad — his remarkable parents — see here and here.)

9. Dallas Morning News: 600 men answer the call to mentor South Dallas students

10. A podcast discussion about foster care.

This on treating adoptive families like cancer patients – people in need of constant loving morale support — from the interviewer above, Melissa Corkum, may get you interested enough to listen.

PLUS: Feel free to send links to things that catch your eye — that we should be reading and sharing and investigating — to [email protected].

My syndicated column this week on J. J. Hanson, a man of heroic virtue.