Faith leaders gathered with Olympic officials Sunday morning in front of Notre Dame Cathedral to celebrate how “faith and sport can complement each other,” in the words of International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach. (Dell’Orto, AP News)
Read MoreThe fight took place as the recriminations grew louder around the IOC, which was facing questions over a letter from the International Boxing Association warning them last year that Khelif had XY chromosomes. (Morgan, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThe Washington Post looked at nearly 200,000 English-language conversations from the research data set WildChat, which includes messages from two AI chatbots built on the same underlying technology as ChatGPT. These conversations make up one of the largest public databases of human-bot interaction in the real world. (Merrill & Lerman, The Washington Post)
Read MoreFor decades, churches have offered day camps for kids called vacation Bible schools — often known by their acronym, VBS. Now they're adapting to changing dynamics of family life and religious participation. Rather than recruiting volunteers from the congregation to run vacation Bible school, Mt. Olive hired Lutheran Retreats, Camps and Conferences to create and lead the program. (DeRose, NPR)
Read MoreThe controversy over the Paris Olympics’ alleged mockery of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper during the opening ceremony takes us all the way back to ancient Greece. (Worley, Christianity Today)
Read MoreLiddell’s sprint at the 1924 Paris Olympics is a canon event in the history of Christian athletes, and not just because of what happened on the track. Liddell entered the 400-meter race only after learning that the heats for his best Olympic event, the 100 meters, would fall on a Sunday. He withdrew from that event, holding fast to his Christian convictions about observing the Sabbath. (Putz, Christianity Today)
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