Monday’s News & Ideas - 10/20/2025
- Faith leaders at ‘No Kings’
- Chicago pastors counter ICE
- Retirees going back to college
- Podcast uses hidden church tapes
- Anti-Muslim ‘brain rot’
- Adolescent slang
New York faith leaders join ‘No Kings’ march against Trump administration agenda
Religion News Service: A crowd of 50, including some of the city’s most prominent religious leaders, held an interfaith vigil before joining a demonstration in Times Square.
With warm faith, pastors seek to counter ICE
United Methodist News Service: While federal judges so far have blocked the full deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago and Portland, United Methodists in both cities say the greatest threats to peace have come from ICE and other federal agents.
Why are more retirees going back to college?*
The New York Times: At Arizona State University, residents pay about $500,000 in entrance fees to live on campus and take classes alongside undergraduates.
The story behind when ‘We All Get to Heaven’*
Slate: How hundreds of cassette tapes hidden under the floor of a Bay Area church reveal a unique slice of gay life in the 1990s.
Roblox says it is investigating anti-Muslim ‘brain rot’ content on gaming platform
Religion News Service: “There is hateful and discriminatory rhetoric that is being put into these spaces that children are consuming,” said CAIR Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry.
The Spark
The ‘six seven’ panic
Adolescent slang* has always been impenetrable to adults, The Cut says. That’s the point.
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