Thursday’s News & Ideas - 8/7/2025
- Palestinian recognition
- Going to multiple churches
- Trump cuts hit universities
- Islam’s intellectual legacy
- Arkansas Commandments law
- Pain of perfectionism
As Gaza starves, churches must lead on Palestinian recognition
Religion News Service: The protection of the Palestinian people is a matter of faith and conscience.
The Washington Post: Momentum builds toward Netanyahu’s plan to occupy all of Gaza*
Church membership may be declining, but many churchgoers are double-dosing
Religion News Service: Amid a collapse of loyalty to religious institutions, many churchgoers say they are attending multiple congregations on Sunday morning.
How Trump forced cuts at wealthy universities*
Insider Higher Ed: Frozen research funding, rising endowment taxes and other concerns have prompted some of the nation’s wealthiest universities to shed jobs despite their multibillion-dollar endowments.
Decolonizing knowledge: A call to reclaim Islam’s intellectual legacy
Al Jazeera: Muslims must move past superficial reforms to challenge Eurocentric frameworks and rediscover their own epistemology.
Federal judge blasts Republicans for trying to pass ‘obviously unconstitutional’ law
HuffPost: The Arkansas law would require the state’s public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every single classroom.
The Spark
The pain of perfectionism
It’s the fault* people humblebrag about in job interviews, but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes, The New Yorker says.
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