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☆ Opinion: This generation needs The Talking Heads as much as their parents did
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But A24’s newly restored 40th anniversary print of the band’s legendary concert film “Stop Making Sense” feels like a moment for a reappraisal. Talking Heads’ lyrics are undeniably more elliptical than N.W.A.’s or the Dead Kennedys’. “Stop Making Sense” starts off within the bounds of that New Wave approach. Byrne’s idiosyncratic dancing and physical appearance are central to “Stop Making Sense,” and he never stops being malfunctioning, android or ectomorph. “Stop Making Sense” included singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Hold, legendary Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell, percussionist Steve Scales and The Brothers Johnson guitarist Alex Weir.

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☆ Restive Moldovan Region Finally Approves Executive
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Sept. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By Alexander TanasCHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova's restive Gagauzia region, locked in an uneasy relationship for 30 years with central authorities in Moldova, endorsed the composition of its local executive committee on Wednesday, a key decision for national institutions. The Executive Committee was elected on the seventh attempt -- after new Bashkan Yevgeniya Gutul withdrew nominations for deputies approved by Shor. "I intend to work constructively with you," Gutul said after the executive line-up was approved. As part of her election campaign, Gutul pledged to open a diplomatic mission for Gagauzia in Moscow. Sandu has delayed including Gutul in Moldova's government -- as required by Moldova's constitution -- pending the outcome of investigations into her election with Shor's backing.

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☆ This hospital chaplain has counseled thousands of dying patients. Here’s what he’s learned
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Park, 41, has been a chaplain at Tampa General Hospital for eight years, and has counseled thousands of patients and their families. Park says he’s spent a lot of time as an adult reconciling with his upbringing and trying to heal. And regret is a common theme among his dying patients. ”What else do dying patients worry about? We are so connected that often we worry about how other people will be affected by our own death.”It’s a reminder that patients’ loved ones face a tough journey after a loss.

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☆ Harmonia Rosales’ ‘Master Narrative’ exhibition reimagines Renaissance art
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

A selection of her work in this vein is currently on display in the exhibition “Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative” at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta. At the core of Rosales’ art is the idea that “storytelling is a journey of personal discovery and a reclamation of one’s cultural identity." Elon Schoenholz/Harmonia RosalesAcross 20 oil paintings and a large-scale sculptural installation, Rosales’ work challenges viewers to consider the universality of creation through a Black diasporic lens. Rosales' work demonstrates her journey towards empowerment and self-love, with figures in her artworks painted with features she used to dislike about herself. Every one of these (artworks) tells my stories.”“Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative” is on display at the Spelman College Museum of Art in Atlanta through December 2.

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☆ Why Are We Obsessed With the Destruction of L.A.?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Ismail Muhammad | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

For them the flooding was ordained by God, a sign that they were vindicated in a running feud with the team. For many of these conservatives, the ultimate decision to host the Sisters earned the Dodgers a special place in hell. The next day, the Dodgers’ official X and Instagram accounts posted images of a dry and sunny scene at the ballpark. In the movies, L.A. is the place where everything goes wrong; at least the rest of the nation can take lessons from its failures. How, I wonder, does the new visual language of social media train us to understand the world?

Persons: God, Marco Rubio, “, Bill Donohue, Charlton Heston, Tom Szczerbowski Organizations: Dodgers, Catholic League, Spunky Conservative Patriot, Los Angeles Times, Charlton, National Guard, Dodger Locations: California, Southern California, Eden, Black

☆ In 'macho' Mexico, stage set for first female president
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Dave Graham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

[1/2] Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum reacts after she was nominated as a presidential candidate, in Mexico City, Mexico September 6, 2023. "It's extraordinary in a patriarchal country," said Josefina Vazquez Mota, who made history in 2012 as the first female presidential candidate for one of Mexico's main parties. "Just imagine having a female president in a country as macho as Mexico!" Mexican women did not win full voting rights until 1953, 33 years after the neighboring United States. Today, Vazquez Mota said, her PAN ally Galvez no longer had to respond to whether Mexico was ready for a female president.

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Postal Service on Friday rolled out its latest special edition postage stamps, paying homage to a tradition with global roots that has evolved over centuries to become a universal symbol of celebration. It was through dance, music and the arts — including the making of piñatas — that biblical stories were spread throughout the New World. "Nativity scenes, piñatas, posadas — all those things really worked well. They bring it with them and so the piñata is no different,” he said. “In the end, I feel that there must be a connection and there must be some sort of mutual understanding,” he said.

Persons: Piñatas, Christ, Cesáreo Moreno, Moreno, piñatas, posadas, ”, Francisco Rodríguez, Rodríguez, Victor Meléndez, “, He's, Meléndez Organizations: U.S . Postal, Las Posadas, National Museum of Mexican Art, posadas —, Associated Press, U.S . Postal Service, Starbucks Locations: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M, U.S, New Mexico, America, Asia, Las, Mexico, Chicago, San Antonio, Los Angeles, In Nevada , Arizona, Albuquerque, El Paso , Texas, Michigan, Mexico City, Seattle

☆ Opinion | A Progressive James Bond Is Proof of American Cultural Imperialism
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

(The cruelty and neglect at these schools was real but the specific claims about graves at the B.C. school have outrun the so-far scanty evidence.) The first is a general tendency of provincial leaders to go overboard in establishing their solidarity and identification with the elites of the imperial core. The second point is the role of secularization and de-Christianization, which are further advanced in the British Isles and Canada than in the United States. Then the third point is that smaller countries with smaller elites can find it easier to enforce ideological conformity than countries that are more sprawling and diverse.

Persons: Ed West, it’s, tastemakers, Aris Roussinos, ” Organizations: Canadian, “, British Isles, Christianity’s, Republican, Laurentian Locations: Canada, British Columbia, British, Ottawa, London, Rome, Europe, United States, Britain, America, Westminster

☆ GOP Sen. Mike Lee muses about Burning Man attendees converting to Christianity following disaster: 'God's judgement is real'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sen. Mike Lee suggested that the disaster at Burning Man was caused by divine intervention. "God's judgement is real," he tweeted, highlighting wild sexual activities performed at the festival. He also mused about attendees converting to Christianity after being stranded by a rainstorm. One person has died, and some attendees are fleeing the festival by hiking through the mud as others ration out their food. President Joe Biden was briefed about the situation at Burning Man on Sunday, according to a White House official, while Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada said she was "monitoring the situation at Burning Man closely."

Persons: Sen, Mike Lee, Republican Sen, Mike Lee of, Lee, who's, Lee mused, Paul, Joe Biden, Democratic Sen, Jacky Rosen, Nevada Organizations: Service, Republican, Rock City, Senate, Twitter, White House, Democratic Locations: Wall, Silicon, Mike Lee of Utah, Rock, Nevada, Utah, Damascus, St, Lee's

☆ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that stuck Burning Man festivalgoers are 'probably being brainwashed' that climate change is 'the root of all evil'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

More than 70,000 Burning Man attendees were stranded at the Nevada campsite following torrential floods. GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said they're probably being 'brainwashed' about climate change. The annual weeklong Burning Man festival, which is held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, faced a series of challenges this year. Greene isn't the only member of Congress who's been outspoken recently against Burning Man. "God's judgement is real," he wrote online before then openly wondering if any festivalgoers had been influenced into converting to Christianity due to this year's tumultuous Burning Man.

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☆ Conjuring a 17th-Century Witch Hunt, With Echoes of Our Own Day
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Elizabeth Graver | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“There was magic all around,” Miller writes. “The politics of alien conspiracy soon dominated political discourse and bid fair to wipe out any other issue. The novel was inspired by witch hunts that took place in East Anglia, England, in the 1640s, where Meyer, who was born in Canada, now lives. From the outset, we see Martha torn between a belief in omens and more mainstream Christianity. “Two bad omens; but what was she to make of them?” Meyer writes.

Persons: Margaret Meyer, ’, Arthur Miller, ” Miller, Margaret Meyer’s, —, Meyer, Martha Hallybread, Martha, Kit, ” Meyer, “, ” Locations: Salem, East Anglia, England, Canada, Cleftwater

☆ Opinion: Why Vivek Ramaswamy’s swipe at Nikki Haley was so off base
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Opinion Jeff Vasishta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —In a move surprising even for a mercurial figure like Vivek Ramaswamy, the millionaire businessman this past week took a backhanded swipe at fellow Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley. For many Indian Americans and many Anglo Indians like me, Ramaswamy’s line of attack might not seem particularly surprising. With his jab at Haley, Ramaswamy almost certainly was not looking to ingratiate himself with Indian Americans. And on the whole, surveys show that nearly seven in 10 Indian voters in the United States identify as Democrats or lean Democratic. This did Ramaswamy no favors with Indian voters, especially Indian women.

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☆ Opinion | Where Should Agnostics Go on Sundays?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

So what he’d like — well, here’s the quote:I can easily imagine a “church for the nones.” (It would need a more appealing name.) I could attend a Christian church on Sundays and teach my daughter about other beliefs the rest of the week. With all my reservations, I don’t really want to join an existing church. And I don’t think I am going to have much luck getting my fellow nones to join something I start. My sense is that the people who want what church provides are going to the existing Christian churches, even if they are skeptical of some of the beliefs.

Persons: Perry Bacon, ’, Jessica Grose, Nick Kristof, Bacon, certainties, Doesn’t Bacon, Hasn’t, he’s, I’ve Organizations: The Washington Post, Society for Ethical, Netflix Locations: America, ”

☆ Opinion | Winners and Losers of the First Republican Debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

Welcome to Opinion’s commentary for the first Republican presidential primary candidate debate, held in Milwaukee on Wednesday night. Gail Collins: She seemed generally reasonable and wow, when the debate turned to education and she actually brought up reading. If there’s any life left in the old G.O.P., Haley gave it hope. Perhaps more important, in taking on the glib and callow Ramaswamy on Ukraine, she showed anger and dominance, essential qualities in a Republican debate. Any debate that doesn’t feature Chris Christie at the front of the highlight reel is a bad night for Christie.

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☆ Opinion | Political Christianity Has Claws
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I went to the feed as well and found it chilling, and not simply because of the obvious hatred for L.G.B.T. It was chilling to me in part because it wasn’t substantially different from the sentiments I see and hear all the time from right-wing Christians in the age of Trump. Mixed in with the account’s strident anti-L.G.B.T. rhetoric and conspiracy theories were posts endorsing Christianity, including some that would otherwise suggest a compassionate heart. The account reposted, for instance, a post that read: “When your heart is hurting and you have nothing left to pray, speak the name of Jesus.

Persons: Travis Ikeguchi, Laura Ann Carleton, Shannon Dicus, “, Carleton, ” Ikeguchi, L.G.B.T, Jesus, ” Organizations: San, “ Investigators, San Bernardino county sheriff’s, Trump Locations: Cedar Glen, Calif, San Bernardino County, San Bernardino county

☆ A 15-year-old medieval girl was buried face down with her ankles possibly tied together to stop her from returning from the dead, researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A 9th century gravesite unearthed in England suggests ancient settlers may have feared the undead. Researchers with the Museum of London Archeology discovered a 15-year-old girl buried face-down. Archeologists, however, discovered the Conington girl buried face-down in a pit that marked the entrance to the small settlement and believe her ankles may have also been tied together, according to the MOLA statement. Archeologists unearthed the remains of a 15-year-old girl in a Medieval settlement near Conington, Cambridgeshire several years ago. "Her burial rites may have reflected the nature of her death, or her social identity or that of her family."

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Sydney, Australia CNN —A Sydney court on Thursday acquitted the founder of global megachurch Hillsong of covering up child sexual abuse committed by his father in the 1970s. Brian Houston learned of the abuse decades later and informed Church leaders but did not tell police. His father admitted the abuse and was defrocked, but was never charged and died in 2004. He founded the Hills Christian Life Centre with his wife Bobbie in Sydney in 1983, which grew into the Hillsong megachurch. Houston stepped down as Hillsong’s global senior pastor in January last year after police charged him with concealing his father’s crimes.

Persons: Australia CNN —, Brian Houston, Brett Sengstock, I’ll, ” Houston, Gareth Christofi, Sengstock, ” Sengstock, Houston’s, Frank Houston, “ Frank Houston, Houston, Bobbie, “, ” Organizations: Australia CNN, Sydney, Hillsong, The Downing Centre Local, Christianity, Christian Life Centre, Hillsong megachurch, CNN Locations: Sydney, Australia, Auckland , New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Indonesia, Japan

☆ Priest: My conversion on LGBTQ rights tells an important story
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Opinion Michael Coren | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Some background and context: Until 2013 I was a Roman Catholic, and as a journalist and broadcaster with a fairly high profile, spoke and wrote frequently in support of Catholic sexual teachings. And according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law.” Pope Francis has made some soothing and compromising comments but, at heart, very little has changed. As a result, I was roundly attacked by Christian conservatives, Catholic as well as Protestant. I made a public apology in my syndicated newspaper column for harm caused to the LGBTQ+ community by my writing and broadcasting. I’m now a priest, spend my time trying to preach the genuine song of the Gospels, and write books and columns doing the same.

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☆ Opinion | Does God Control History?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Instead, I managed to entangle myself in an argument about a different totalitarianism-related question: whether the destruction of Hitler’s Germany was a true and righteous judgment of Almighty God. The style of far-right thought involved in both stories takes Western decadence as a given, while arguing that Christianity is a weak vessel for any kind of cultural revival. Its big idea is that a conservatism that looks to classical and pagan sources, and embraces some kind of racial identitarianism could be more, well, vital in its engagement with the times. The decay and decadence of Western Christianity makes the return of right-wing Nietzscheanism inevitable. But Christians can say with some warrant that God’s judgment on that project is evident already.

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☆ Maui wildfire death toll of 55 expected to rise amid search for victims
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Marco Garcia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

KAHULUI, Hawaii, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The death toll from a wildfire that killed at least 55 people on Hawaii's Maui island was expected to rise on Friday, as search teams prepared to comb through the charred ruins of a historic resort town for more victims. "Understand this: Lahaina Town is hallowed, sacred ground right now," Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said, referring to humans remains that have yet to be recovered. In addition to searching for the missing, officials were drafting a plan to house the newly homeless in hotels and tourist rental properties. The Lahaina fire is one of three major wildfires on Maui. There was no estimate for the Upcountry fire in the center of the eastern mass of the island, Maui County said.

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☆ Cocaine cartels encroach on Unification Church’s Paraguayan paradise
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Puerto Casado | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +20 min

Many of the runways are on land owned by the Unification Church of South Korea, founded by Rev. The Unification Church is a major power in this unruly region. Byun, the Unification Church lawyer, provided Reuters with an April 2022 document the church sent to Paraguayan anti-narcotics prosecutors, urging an investigation into potential illicit activity. Trouble in paradiseThe alleged drug-running on its land isn’t the only trouble the Unification Church has faced in the Chaco. Byun, the church lawyer, acknowledged the tensions with locals in Puerto Casado but declined to comment on the Myungs or the fire.

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CNN —Tou Thao, the former Minneapolis police officer who held back a crowd of bystanders during George Floyd’s fatal arrest in May 2020, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison Monday for aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer to face sentencing in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd, appeared in court Monday. During the arrest, Lane held down Floyd’s legs, Kueng held down Floyd’s torso, and Thao stood nearby and kept back a crowd of upset bystanders, including an off-duty firefighter trying to render aid. Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in state court and was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison in June 2021. Lane, Kueng and Thao were found guilty in federal court of violating Floyd’s civil rights and of failing to intervene to stop Chauvin during the restraint.

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For two decades, Ilya Solkan served as the parish priest in a tiny Ukrainian village outside the capital, Kyiv. He baptized babies, blessed marriages and conducted funerals. The Orthodox church stood at the heart of the village and Mr. Solkan was central to its life. The removal of Mr. Solkan, a priest with no public profile beyond his home village, reflects the gradual rejection by much of Ukrainian society of a church that answers to Moscow — a process that has been accelerated by the war. Specifically, it speaks to the division between the two branches of Orthodox Christianity, the most predominant religion in Ukraine.

Persons: Ilya Solkan, Solkan, ” Organizations: ” Locations: Kyiv, Blystavytsya, Moscow, Christianity, Ukraine

☆ He Raised Millions for Bibles but Spent It on Gambling and Gold, U.S. Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To Amish and Mennonite communities in Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Jason Gerald Shenk was a devout missionary spreading the word of God overseas. With their financial help, he would send Bibles and other Christian literature to China, where Christianity has long been curtailed by the Chinese Communist Party. A federal investigation into Mr. Shenk’s whereabouts is underway in conjunction with authorities in other countries, said Barry L. Paschal, a spokesman for the Southern District of Georgia. Prosecutors said Mr. Shenk renounced his citizenship in 2016 to avoid reporting his finances, and he is believed to be residing outside of the United States. It is not clear if Mr. Shenk has a lawyer.

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Violence erupted in the northern state of Harayana state on Monday after a right-wing Hindu organization led a religious procession in the Muslim dominated region of Nuh. However, opposition politicians and activists have called the attack a “hate crime” that targeted India’s Muslim minority population. Increase in hate crimesThe latest communal violence come against a broader rise in hate crimes against minority groups. Last month, the BJP chief minister of the state of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, blamed Muslims for the soaring prices of tomatoes. Some cities named after historic Muslim figures have also been renamed to reflect India’s Hindu history.

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