Throughout 2025, numerous news outlets highlighted a growing embrace of evangelicalism in the Bay Area. At the center of this coverage has been ACTS 17, whose name is both an acronym for Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society and a nod to the biblical chapter where the Apostle Paul proselytizes to Athenian intellectuals. (Royster, Religion News Service)
Read MoreFor six days, 1,000 U.S. evangelical pastors traveled through Israel, holding a mass prayer at the Western Wall, meeting with freed hostages at the Oct. 7, 2023, Nova Festival massacre site and attending private high-level security briefings. (Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Read MoreFor more than a decade, Tegmark’s organization, the Future of Life Institute, had been trying to raise the alarm that advanced AI could be catastrophic to humanity. Shortly after the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the Future of Life Institute made a famous call for a pause in the most advanced AI development. (Hagey & Schechner, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreBeginning with the inauguration of Donald Trump, take a quick look back at all that happened in 2025. (Li, Vox)
Read MoreRespondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say " 6-7 ” is “cooked” and should come to a massive full-stop heading into the new year. Those are among the top 10 words on the 50th annual “Banished Words List,” released Thursday by Lake Superior State University. (Williams, AP News)
Read MoreDry January was started by a British woman named Emily Robinson. She signed up for a half-marathon in February 2011 and decided to stay away from alcohol for the month of January in order to prepare. (Rampton, Mental Floss)
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