Thursday's News & Ideas - 11/10/2022

Elon Musk loves The Babylon Bee. Will he let the site back on Twitter?
Religion News Service: The Christian satire site’s connection to Musk is the latest example of the Bee’s rise from a would-be pastor’s side project to a conservative powerhouse.

Waiting for God at Doug Mastriano’s election night watch party
HuffPost: The GOP nominee for Pennsylvania governor thought Christian prophets foretold his victory. On Tuesday night, he watched Fox News tell him otherwise.

Kennedy Center honoree Amy Grant is just one big star who’s walked the line between ‘Christian’ and ‘secular’ music
The Conversation: The boundary between religious and nonreligious music has long been porous. No one personifies that fluidity better than Grant.

Republicans win on inflation but lose on abortion
Christianity Today: Prayed-for midterm “red wave” fails to materialize.

How political engagement can go wrong for people of faith
Deseret News: Why do some faith groups seem so cruel in the political context?

The Spark

The story of my imposters
“Think about it: Is the ‘you’ of your Instagram or Twitter account a tangible thing* that you can call property? Is it a part of your ‘self,’ like a kidney or a bank account?” writes Dan Chaon in The Atlantic.

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