Tuesday's News & Ideas - 6/13/2023
- SBC to vote on ban on women pastors
- How good is a chatbot sermon?
- Three years after George Floyd’s death
- Working class & church
- Astronomer Gingerich dies
- Greatest hospitality story
Southern Baptists to vote on measure enshrining ban on women pastors at annual meeting*
The Tennessean: The Southern Baptist Convention executive committee approved a motion for the full convention to vote on a proposal to enshrine a ban on women pastors.
Can a chatbot preach a good sermon? Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT to find out
Associated Press: The 40-minute service — including the sermon, prayers and music — was created by ChatGPT and Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna.
Three years after George Floyd’s death, faith groups quietly advance racial healing
Religion News Service: A range of Christian groups are working separately to continue to address the often-fraught divisions along racial lines among their members and in the wider society.
Working class: Religious but not attending church
Deseret News: While working class Americans identify as religious at similar rates to their middle-and upper-class counterparts, they are less likely to be found in the pews. Why?
Owen Gingerich, astronomer who saw God in the cosmos, dies at 93*
The New York Times: He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book.
The Spark
The greatest hospitality story ever
While a man was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family, Longreads says.
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