Some people immersed in tarot, New Age spirituality and the occult are finding Jesus—and leaving those practices behind.Meanwhile, some progressive churches are moving the opposite direction, reshaping biblical teaching to accommodate the culture. The irony is difficult to miss.
For most of the internet's history, opening a website required little more than an internet connection. You could read, search, post, debate and browse without first proving to a government-backed system who you were. That era may be beginning to close.
Just when you think progressive Christianity has reached the outer limits of theological reinvention, someone moves the boundary again. This time, an Episcopal priest in New York has declared that God is transgender--and suggested that the resurrection of Jesus Christ may actually have been His "transition."
Israel has spent nearly three years trying to explain October 7 to the world. And yet, much of the world moved on. Now something unexpected is happening. A television show may be reaching people Israel's diplomats never could.
For decades, one of the most intriguing archaeological mysteries in the biblical world has been sitting in the mountains of eastern Turkey. From the air, it looks remarkably like the outline of a massive ship. Now, for perhaps the first time, the argument is moving beyond photographs and radar screens.
Gallup reports that 43% of Americans now view socialism positively—the highest level recorded since Gallup began tracking the question in 2010. Among Americans ages 18 to 34, the numbers are even more striking. Socialism: 57%.
When schools shut down during the pandemic, homeschooling exploded. Many assumed families would eventually return to the old system and homeschooling numbers would settle back to their previous levels. That hasn't happened.
New research has revealed the stunning extent to which transgender-identifying males have taken over women's sporting events, finding that almost 2,300 first-place medals have been taken by males.
For several days, world leaders have walked to the same podium in New York and spoken about war, security, artificial intelligence, climate, international law and the future. But listen carefully and something much bigger emerges. They are describing two very different visions of how the world should be governed.
For years, the nightmare scenario surrounding artificial intelligence and warfare has looked something like science fiction: autonomous weapons making their own decisions, computers selecting targets, machines eventually removing human beings from the process of deciding who lives and who dies. But we may have been worrying about the wrong nightmare.
What happens when virtually every new form of sexual identity or relationship structure moves from personal choice to protected identity?
For Israelis, October 7, 2023 has changed the way we remember October 6, 1973. The two dates are separated by exactly fifty years, but they are joined by more than coincidence.