The United Nations held its annual climate change conference, COP28, late last year but produced little to show for its efforts. The U.N.’s Conference on Parties — meaning “all parties in the world” — met for the 28th straight year,…
What Bob Menendez, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and immigration have to do with Cuba’s troubling times
“Bob, I gotta to talk to you about Cuba,” President Biden said to Sen. Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), then chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, following the chief executive’s State of the Union address last February. “I’m serious.” The remarks, caught…
AI ‘deep fakes’ are creating a new way of violating women’s privacy on the internet
Most people know of AI as a tool that will write papers, complete assignments or generate streams of content at the click of a button, like ChatGPT. Debates about the pros and cons of AI have been in conversation for…
Things fall apart. Is democracy one of them?
It feels like 1971. That was a bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards. Abbie Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. And smirking funny boy Jerry Seinfeld checking out a book from the New York…
Schiess shows how politicians use and abuse Scripture to shape history and hermeneutics
“Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. … That’s my worldview,” said newly elected U.S. speaker of the House Mike Johnson when asked how he would weigh the many issues he confronts. Johnson joins a long…
What is IHOPKC? Who is Mike Bickle? And what do I need to know?
It’s ironic that in a movement built on prophetic dreams where God supposedly reveals the secrets of the world, apparently nobody ever receives a dream about the credible allegations of sexual abuse going on in the church. Mike Bickle is…
The greatest Christmas hymn ever written
Sitting on the floor Christmas morning in my bright red Union suit, I brace myself for the forthcoming onslaught of ripped wrapping paper at the hands of two small children. The kids already have found Santa’s presents resting beside the…
Is it true: Will Chick-fil-A be forced to open on Sunday?
A bill proposed before the New York Legislature would require Chick-fil-A to open on Sundays in their restaurants located along I-90. Or so the story goes. Nothing creates outrage among evangelicals like rumors of persecution. The idea that Chick-fil-A —…
When angry white men can’t give up hating Beth Moore
This article was updated Dec. 30 to include a response from Beth Moore. Some of the Southern Baptist Convention’s white male theocrats just can’t give up hating on Beth Moore. It has been nearly three years since the popular…