Users of the platform can join video calls with an avatar of Jesus generated by artificial intelligence. Like other religious AI tools on the market, it offers words of prayer and encouragement in various languages. With the occasional glitch, it remembers previous conversations and speaks through not-quite-synced lips. (Fauria & Wardarski, AP News)
Read MoreIn the eight decades following World War II, the country carved a unique path among the nations of the former Soviet bloc as the one country that has endured—largely in the same mold in which it was first fashioned under state founder Kim Il Sung. (Cheng, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreAnthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered how the chatbot should respond to users who are grieving loved ones and whether Claude could be considered a “child of God.” (De Vynck & Tiku, The Washington Post)
Read MoreWhen Pope Leo XIV embarks on Monday on a 10-day tour of Africa, he will visit a continent that both represents the demographic future of the Roman Catholic Church and bears some of its deepest ideological fault lines. (Rich, The New York Times)
Read MoreOverall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read all or part of at least one book in the past 12 months, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in October 2025. While book reading is widespread, the survey also shows that participation in book clubs is much less common. (Bishop, Pew Research Center)
Read MoreEvangelical giving has stabilized after several years of significant decline, but almost no one gives a biblical tithe to the church, a new study from Grey Matter Research and Infinity Concepts found. (Chandler, Baptist Press)
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