In a desperate bid to be "relevant," many modern churches have swapped the sacred for the sensational. The pulpit has become a platform. The sanctuary, a stage. The gospel, reduced to glitter. Once holy ground is now littered with fog machines, pop music, and movie scripts. And it's not just a fringe trend-it's becoming the defining flavor of much of American evangelicalism.
For years, Amazon has insisted its Alexa devices only listen when prompted by a "wake word." But now, the company appears ready to drop the charade entirely. It has announced plans to acquire Bee, a startup behind a new wearable AI bracelet that listens to--and transcribes--everything you say, all day long.
In churches across China, facial recognition cameras now line the walls-even at the pulpit-transforming sacred spaces into surveillance zones. Under the rule of Xi Jinping, worship is no longer private-it is being watched, recorded, and weaponized.
In a world often filled with headlines that depress, divide, and discourage, something radiant happened this past weekend in Anaheim, California--something worth celebrating and 6,500 reasons to say, "God is not done with this generation."
As more families flee from increasingly extreme "public education," New Jersey lawmakers have a radical new bill to force homeschool parents to teach their children using the same dumbed-down standards and outrageous ideologies as government schools.
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It's tempting to view the internet's latest viral sensation as merely another episode of internet drama. But it's far more than that. "Coldplaygate" reveals something deeper--about technology, about truth, and about the spiritual condition of our age.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt recently warned the nation about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's socialist agenda at a press briefing. But there's another name she could have added. Meet Omar Fateh, another Muslim democratic socialist who is running for Minneapolis mayor.
The sanctuary was once a place where souls came to be transformed by the Spirit of God, where reverence met repentance, and where the presence of Christ was both sought and honored. But now, in the case of West Hill United Church in Toronto, we are witnessing the tragic transformation of that sanctuary into a stage--a literal clown show.
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