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Today’s Briefing

Days after the flash flood that washed through the Texas Hill Country, Camp Mystic says it’s “grieving the loss of 27 campers and counselors.”

T. D. Jakes installs the next generation of leadership at The Potter’s House in Dallas.

When welcome looks like turning down worship: A new batch of Christian research focuses on how church services include congregants with autism and neurodivergence.

Chronic migraines forced one Christian to reckon with her pain from bright lights—which taught her something about approaching the light of God’s glory. 

How the government of Iran is and is not a Shiite theocracy.

Behind the Story

From worship correspondent Kelsey Kramer McGinnis: I love reading a good interview or profile, and I think excellent interviewers have distinct approaches to conversation and writing. Sam Sanders is one of my favorites; I love how he builds rapport with his interviewees and weaves together personal reflection and laughter and depth.

When I interview an artist, I try to think about researchers 50 or 100 years in the future. What would help them understand these people and their significance in this particular moment? 

I don’t know what historians and scholars of religion or popular music will be interested in decades from now. But, for example, when I think about what an interview with Brandon Lake could tell a researcher studying Christian music or religion in America, I find it a lot easier to ask questions without worrying, “Is this a softball?” or “Does this question make me sound like I did my background research?” or “Would the Hot Ones guy be impressed?”

This framework is more of a guide than a systematic method. Mostly, it helps me avoid getting hung up on how an artist is going to perceive my questions or whether I’m being interesting enough. Jimmy Fallon’s job is to make every guest look great. My job, for now, is to figure out what makes musicians’ work noteworthy at the moment and to help them talk about it truthfully and thoughtfully.


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Today in Christian History

July 8, 1741: Colonial Congregational minister Jonathan Edwards preaches his classic sermon at Enfield, Connecticut: “You are thus in the hands of an angry God; ’tis nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction.” 

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As developments in artificial intelligence change daily, we’re increasingly asking what makes humanity different from the machines we use. In this issue, Emily Belz introduces us to tech workers on the frontlines of AI development, Harvest Prude explains how algorithms affect Christian courtship, and Miroslav Volf writes on the transhumanist question. Several writers call our attention to the gifts of being human: Haejin and Makoto Fujimura point us to beauty and justice, Kelly Kapic reminds us God’s highest purpose isn’t efficiency, and Jen Pollock Michel writes on the effects of Alzheimer’s . We bring together futurists, theologians, artists, practitioners, and professors to consider how technology shapes us even as we use it.

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