Good morning! Here are today’s temperatures:

⛅ 33 – 51° in Logan | 20% 💧

🌤️ 43 – 55° in Salt Lake | 10% 💧

🌤️ 59 – 81° in St. George | 10% 💧

Churches across the country are struggling to stay open amid a decline in religious engagement. My colleague Jennifer Graham has a goal this year to visit a new church every month and is encouraging others to adopt the goal.

Read more about why Jennifer thinks visiting churches is important and her advice for introverts who get anxious when they go to a new place.

Also on our minds:

About 200 people showed up on Tuesday for the second day of pro-Palestinian protests at the University of Utah. But the protest ended quickly after protesters decided to leave campus to head to the county jail, where they called for the release of one of the organizers who was arrested.

The rally and speeches were once again held on Presidents Circle on campus, but unlike Monday’s event, which included an estimated 300 protesters and lasted for more than seven hours before police broke it up, Tuesday’s protest was brief.

Protests have roiled campuses across the country in the past few weeks. On Tuesday night, the New York City Police Department was called in to clear the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University, arresting around 100 protesters, according to news reports. The encampment at Columbia triggered a wave of copycats across the country following a rise in student activism against the war in Gaza.

Read more about the protests on the University of Utah campus.

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— Ariel