A federal court ruling has affirmed the free speech and religious rights of California teachers who want to tell parents about how their child is expressing gender identity at school, a victory for conservatives and parent-rights advocates that stands to rewrite state school policies if upheld. (Blume, Los Angeles Times)
Read MoreIn its motion to join the suit, Americans United said a proposed settlement to the lawsuit, which would allow churches to make political statements during services, violates federal law and would give religious nonprofits rights that secular groups don’t have. (Smietana, Religion News Service)
Read MoreThe latest spate of such images has given new weight to accusations by watchdog groups, women’s advocates and foreign governments that the social media company is playing fast and loose with artificial intelligence while other companies enforce stricter guardrails. (Hunter, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThroughout 2025, numerous news outlets highlighted a growing embrace of evangelicalism in the Bay Area. At the center of this coverage has been ACTS 17, whose name is both an acronym for Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society and a nod to the biblical chapter where the Apostle Paul proselytizes to Athenian intellectuals. (Royster, Religion News Service)
Read MoreFor six days, 1,000 U.S. evangelical pastors traveled through Israel, holding a mass prayer at the Western Wall, meeting with freed hostages at the Oct. 7, 2023, Nova Festival massacre site and attending private high-level security briefings. (Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Read MoreFor more than a decade, Tegmark’s organization, the Future of Life Institute, had been trying to raise the alarm that advanced AI could be catastrophic to humanity. Shortly after the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the Future of Life Institute made a famous call for a pause in the most advanced AI development. (Hagey & Schechner, The Wall Street Journal)
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