Tuesday's News & Ideas - 7/25/2023
- Chatbots with ‘biblical’ worldview
- Yeshiva master’s program for Christians
- Russell Moore on evangelical church ‘crisis’
- Christian Nationalism hurts kids
- Protests over Quran burning
- Grief as spiritual practice
Christian creators build chatbots with ‘biblical’ worldview*
The Washington Post: The chatbots have spurred excitement among Christians while forcing their leaders to reckon with the technology.
Yeshiva University adds a master’s program in Jewish studies for Christians
Religion News Service: The program comes at a time when many seminaries and graduate schools are courting students of different faiths.
The American evangelical church is in crisis. There’s only one way out.*
The Atlantic: Evangelicals can have revival or nostalgia — but not both, Russell Moore says.
Christian Nationalism hurts the children it claims to protect — as author Lillian Smith understood 80 years ago
Religion Dispatches: Amidst a litany of conspiracy theories, Jon Schrock got to his main point, that educators should be replaced with “pastors” who would teach a curriculum “rooted in Christian fundamentalism.”
Protesters angry over Quran burning storm Swedish embassy in Baghdad*
The New York Times: The demonstrators, responding to a protest in Stockholm last month and ahead of one on Thursday, set fire to parts of the building.
The Spark
Why this poet sees grief as its own kind of spiritual practice
Grief burrows into you and it never goes away so you have to figure out a way to live with it, which means acknowledging it, even cultivating it when it makes an appearance in your daily life, NPR says.
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