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Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation

…mething as simple as a mask, if you don’t care about their life, you don’t care about their soul. You care [only] about religion,” said Pastor Cue Jn Marie, the pastor of Skid Row’s Church Without Walls and one of the lead organizers of the Resistance Against Biological Warfare. Jn Marie worries the event could spread coronavirus into Skid Row, and said he reached out to Feucht via Facebook last week with no response. It’s those risks Feucht is ta…

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With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

…oogle uses of unreliable information, shown as the result of a search on a phone, reads, “ufo filmed traveling 106 mph.” This new algorithm will allow regulation of user generated witness testimonies. We’ve had witness testimonies for a long time. Is it really suddenly okay to talk about UAPs? Closer examination of this question reveals that it is only okay to talk about certain sightings—those ensconced within a military framework, and new algori…

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How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

…religiously-motivated pogroms afterwards. A few weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with a leader of New York City’s Bangladeshi Hindu community, who was extremely resistant to making the connection between the persecution of his fellow Hindus in Bangladesh and the persecution of Muslims in India. He insisted, “Please don’t tell me about India. I only want to focus on my people, Hindus in Bangladesh.” I suggested that there was folly in focusing on t…

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Scolding Those Who Choose Pets But No Children Pope Misses the Rainforest for the Trees

…-sex couples the right to adopt. Moreover, living with animals can be self-care rather than self-ish in many cases. Research tells us that living with cats and dogs can decrease depression, lower stress and anxiety, and improve cardiovascular health. Interspecies homes can also help human children learn empathy or help older adults with dementia curb loneliness. We’ve also learned that cultivating compassion for animals in our homes can increase e…

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We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption

…5 million per year guaranteed over six years. Pastors and football coaches carry significant responsibility for women’s welfare. Pastors routinely deal with issues such as struggling marriages, domestic violence, and sexual harm. Football coaches must confront sexual misconduct allegations against program members, which include over 100 student-athletes and dozens of paid and volunteer employees. No evidence suggests either man has changed enough…

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Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

…hese days? Recently I realized, wow, I’m not being pastored. I’m not being cared for here. Women in general in my denomination do not receive pastoral care, especially if they’re single. Because of our aversion to female leadership, we don’t have women in places to offer pastoral care. So I have been investing deeply in my friendships with people of color, in particularly other queer people of color who are all over the country because that’s the…

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How an Ancient Story of Renegade Rabbis Caught With Black Market Technology Can Help Us Navigate ChatGPT’s Apocalyptic Aura

…ionships between individuals, but is more easily disseminated to a greater number of people. We experience AI as a crisis because, like the rabbis of the Talmud, we actually have conflicting needs and desires. We crave the efficiency of AI because it can save time and effort, helping us write emails, make phone calls, and recall and summarize information. At the same time, we’re seeking human connection when we do reach out, and AI fails to provid…

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As a Queer Catholic Woman I Had High Hopes Before the 2023 Catholic Synod on Synodality

…elt that little sacristy door slightly creak open as I fumbled to dial the phone to call my mom. Was this it? Sadly, no. My excitement faded as I followed the livestream of the Synod of Bishops, punctuated by anger as I read the summit’s 41-page report. This past Friday I saw New Ways Ministry’s statement, “Synod Report Greatly Disappoints, But We Must Have Hope,” while walking down a busy DC thoroughfare. In it Francis DeBernardo, executive direc…

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Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

…ferencing Dutch Sheets and Chuck Pierce… He’s on a first name basis with a number of these prophets… He doesn’t casually dip into these things, he’s really tracking these prophets. Taylor sees Parker’s influence in both the court’s ruling and his concurrence: I mean, a state Supreme Court justice is referencing modern charismatic prophets to describe how he understands his role [in] the judiciary. This is very, very extreme. It’s hard to wrap your…

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Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

…gence apps” including As One America, which contains the name, address and phone number of Christian neighbors “who are not showing up to vote or who are not registered.” He then showed a map with big red arrows pointing to precincts “within striking distance” from Vida Church to the precincts that are “where the devil’s got a stronghold that God wants to break up.” The app was developed by Superfeed Technologies, which has also designed apps for…

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