As a licensed therapist and evangelical Christian, Kaley Chiles said she wants to help religious teens who struggle with sexual orientation and gender dysphoria “live a life consistent with their faith” and the identities God has laid out in the Bible. (Jouvenal, The Washington Post)
Read MoreForty years on, Cameron Mackintosh, the world’s most successful theatre producer, can still remember the lurch he felt in the pit of his stomach when, around midnight, he picked up the following day’s papers at Piccadilly Circus, just hours after his latest musical project, an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, had opened at the Barbican Centre. (Cavendish, The Telegraph)
Read MoreA fascist SpongeBob SquarePants, a dog driving a car and Jesus playing Minecraft – these are just a few of the things you can see as you flip through OpenAI's new app populated exclusively with short-form videos generated using artificial intelligence. (Brumfiel, NPR)
Read MoreWhen American evangelicals affirm the Trinity but don’t see the Spirit as a personal being, when they consider Jesus as the sole source of righteousness but insist that people are still inherently good, either not enough churches are teaching sound doctrine or not enough churchgoers are listening. (Shellnutt, Christianity Today)
Read MoreThe researchers describe a sequence in how religious life tends to decline across generations. First, participation in worship services drops. Next, people report that religion becomes less important in their lives. Finally, formal religious affiliation declines. They refer to this as the Participation–Importance–Belonging, or P-I-B, sequence. (Teixeira, Religion News Service)
Read MoreReligious leaders have worked in recent months with specialists to install bulletproof film on windows, reinforce doors, erect fences and bollards in parking lots, and set up surveillance systems designed to detect potential threats during services. (Hawkins, The Washington Post)
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