Given his rallies and political connections, Feucht is “maybe the most effective evangelical figure on the far right,” Matthew D. Taylor, the senior Christian scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, told me. He is a big reason Christian nationalism has more purchase now than at any other point in recent history. (Breland, The Atlantic)
Read MoreThat the once wildest of rock and roll madmen seems capable of putting in a shift will doubtless be seen as good news by the 40-odd thousand people who, in some cases, have coughed up several hundred pounds for the privilege of watching Osbourne and Sabbath close their accounts. (Winwood, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThe Dalai Lama has declared that the institution of the Tibetan Buddhist leader will continue after his death and that responsibility for finding his successor will “rest exclusively” with his foundation, contradicting Beijing’s attempts to exert control over the religious figure’s selection. (Northrop, The Washington Post)
Read More“M3gan” painted the titular android as a villain, an AI-enhanced toy who tried to replace brilliant designer Gemma (Williams) as the caretaker of her niece Cady (Violet McGraw). It was a genre sensation, but the sequel “M3gan 2.0,” which opened last week, adopts a much softer approach. (Rao, The Washington Post)
Read MoreMost pastors say their churches have policies in place to address significant misbehavior by church members, but few have actually used those policies recently. According to a Lifeway Research study of more than 1,000 U.S. Protestant pastors, only 1 in 6 say their church has formally disciplined anyone in the past year. (Earls, Lifeway Research)
Read MoreWhile the play was absurd, the tech powering it was anything but. Each team operated fully autonomously, driven by AI, with no human intervention or supervision — an impressive breakthrough somewhat masked by the slapstick spectacle playing out on the field. (Clayton, NBC News)
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