Friday's News & Ideas - 5/23/2025
- Shooting at Jewish Museum
- Five years after Floyd’s murder
- Empty markets in Gaza
- Religious charter school blocked
- Claiborne on arrest
- Mystery in the digital age
What we know about the Jewish Museum shooting that left two Israeli Embassy staffers dead
CNN: The Department of Justice is investigating the Washington, DC, shooting that killed two Israeli Embassy staffers as an act of terrorism and a hate crime.
NBC News: Jewish Museum killings show how hard it is to stop radicalized lone wolf attacks
Five years after George Floyd’s murder, church leaders say race relations face retrenchment
Religion News Service: “We are honest about the conditions that we’re facing, but we are not hopeless about what we’re facing,” said Bishop W. Darin Moore of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
In Gaza, empty markets and unaffordable canned lentils*
Christianity Today: A Christian in Gaza describes the worsening hunger crisis, blaming both Israel and Hamas.
US Supreme Court blocks religious charter school in split ruling
The Guardian: The justices’ 4-4 ruling leaves intact a lower court’s decision that blocked the establishment of the Oklahoma school.
Why we got arrested last week — and why we’d do it again
Religion News Service: Not all of us will go to jail. But each of us can ask, what does courage look like right now? Shane Claiborne and Ben Cohen ask.
The Spark
The reenchanted world
Karl Ove Knausgaard writes for Harper’s Magazine on finding mystery* in the digital age.
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