Wednesday's News & Ideas - 8/16/2023

Pastor indicted alongside Trump in Georgia election meddling case
Religion News Service: A Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor is charged with attempting to influence witnesses and conspiring to solicit false statements and writings, all as part of an effort to influence an election worker.

Tim Keller taught us how to live — and how to die*
Christianity Today: The late pastor sought to glorify God in his devotional life, his marriage, and his ministry. How he did so in his illness was no different, Francis Collins says.

The college that refused to die*
The Assembly: What happens when survival becomes a college’s No. 1 priority? St. Andrews University in Laurinburg, North Carolina, offers a cautionary tale.

Russell Moore claims there’s a crisis in evangelical America — but white evangelicalism is exactly where it wants to be
Religion Dispatches: Russell Moore used to be one of the top officials of the most powerful religious organization in the country, the Southern Baptist Convention, before he was pushed out in 2021 for criticizing Donald Trump. Since then, Moore has rebranded himself as defender of the soul of evangelical Protestantism.

A Filipino congregation took in its own members after their Lahaina homes burned
NPR: Members of Koinonia Pentecostal Church in Lahaina, Hawaii, were displaced by the fire there. The Filipino congregants are unsure when they'll be able to return home.

The Spark

These women tried to warn us about AI
Today the risks of artificial intelligence* are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along, Rolling Stone says.

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