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Posts by Stewart Hoover

There’s essential context missing here. Which leaders or at least which branches of Christianity? All the quotes are from Catholics.

Can AI be a ‘child of God’? Inside Anthropic’s meeting with Christian leaders.

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Opinion | For Democrats, the Era of the Girl Dad and Male Ally Is Over

No one should be confused that Schmitz is an objective source on religion or anything else

For Democrats, the Era of the Girl Dad and Male Ally Is Over www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/o...

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Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might

So much for any notion of a “universal Christian Church …”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

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Opinion | James Talarico represents Christianity’s past, not its future The Texas Democrat’s support for transgender rights helps explain why liberal Christianity is dying.

And by the way, has anyone else noticed how the WashPost’s editorial page is increasingly resembling the old Arizona Republic?

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | James Talarico represents Christianity’s past, not its future The Texas Democrat’s support for transgender rights helps explain why liberal Christianity is dying.

The evangelical/integrationist right has finally noticed (and is obviously nervous about) James Talarico as a potential alternative voice for Christianity in the discourse (they’ve had the monopoly for soooo long!).

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Stewart Hoover | Substack Professor of media and religion

substack.com/@meloneer200...

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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality

Very troubling…but what about the “spiritual” implications that are mentioned but glossed over?

What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

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The NYT should be ashamed of itself for running this today…and they decry the end of journalism!!

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Opinion | We Need to Think Straight About God and Politics

We Need to Think Straight About God and Politics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

Well done. I’d have added Jimmy Kimmel’s invocation of faith on his return in the list of recent examples. Otherwise only the right has such language. That’s one of the causes of the problem @nytdavidbrooks

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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

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Medicaid cuts in Trump tax bill could close 6 rural hospitals in Colorado, report warns The hospitals are spread across the state, including three on the Western Slope, one in the San Luis Valley and two on the Eastern Plains.

My home town in the news *again* for being in Trump’s crosshairs.., second time this week. What’s next?

www.dailycamera.com/2025/06/22/c...

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My home town in the news *again* for being in Trump’s crosshairs.., second time this week. What’s next?

Medicaid cuts in Trump tax bill could close 6 rural hospitals in Colorado, report warns

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What’s Working: Rocky Ford was a finalist for an environmental justice grant. Then Trump stepped in. “It didn’t just cancel a funding stream. It sent a message that rural communities like Rocky Ford … don’t matter,” said Mayor Duane Gurulé.

My hometown in the news—and in Trump’s crosshairs!

coloradosun.com/2025/06/21/r...

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The problem of the Christian assassin

@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social finally notices @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Maybe if he’d been reading Jeff earlier David wouldn’t have been so surprised about what’s been happening on the Religious Right…

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Bankruptcy or Bust: Financial Desperation Doomed the Titan Sub Unveiling the shocking truth behind OceanGate's catastrophic implosion and the compromising decisions driven by dire financial situation.

gcaptain.com/bankruptcy-o.... A lesson for all of us in the time of Trump and the “tech bros..” Do we need a more vivid example of the dangers of unbridled entrepreneurial hubris than the Titan disaster? No…we can’t just follow the technology where it supposedly leads us.

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We know at least some of the cardinals saw this image....did the Vatican just join Canada and Australia in having an "anti-Trump" election? inquiring minds....

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I’ll admit to anti-Christian bias: I’m biased against Christian snowflakes who can’t stand to be confronted about the contradictions between the Gospel and *their* biases…

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Pleased to see the arrival of the new Second Edition of my book *Religion in the Media Age* (London: Routledge)

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Trump Live Updates: U.S. Stocks Plunge as Economic Fears Grow and Latest Tariffs News

Up next: a Trump executive order prohibiting market slides… www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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Christians Are Pressing Trump to Clear a Path for Israel to Annex the West Bank Some 80 percent of white, evangelical Christians voted for President Trump. Now, some want a policy change that could undermine a future Palestinian state.

This is the realization of a long strategy by the State of Israel. Those trips for pious Christians during which they met none of the actual Christians living there but came away with brimming support for the Jewish state and its implicit plans for the territories… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/w...

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Thanks, Mon!

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Mt. McKinley from the air this morning.. the Gods have decreed that we won’t see again until Trump changes the name back to Denali…

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Opinion | How Jay Bhattacharya, the First Health Economist Tapped to Run the N.I.H., Can Lead Reform Can Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reform America’s primary medical research agency?

Sure its fine as long as we keep remembering that, as a discipline, evonomics is moral theology masquerading as social science…www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/opinion/jay-b...

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Says it all…

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Decline in American Christian observance has slowed, Pew study finds (RNS) – ‘The U.S. is a spiritual place, a religious place, where we’ve seen signs of religious stabilization in the midst of longer-term decline,’ said Gregory Smith, a senior associate director of re...

This interpretation of these results is misleading…the study is comparing 2014 and 2024 results and the decline has continued…but a ten year time gap doesn’t really help us understand actual trends…

religionnews.com/2025/02/26/d...

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One Nation, Under God Americans have stopped leaving Christianity. And the country is overwhelmingly spiritual, a new report found.

I'm afraid this piece does not make a convincing case that US secularization is "on hold." As with so many accounts, it also confuses what it actually means by "religion."

One Nation, Under God www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...

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Another effort from the NYT to explain American religion which unfortunately misunderstands and misreads its object…it says secularization is “on hold”…?

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Trump says he may take control of the US Postal Service. Here's what to know President Donald Trump says he may put the U.S. Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department in what would amount to an executive branch takeover of the independent agency.

Oh great…the guy who bankrupted casinos, an airline, etc. is going to run the Post Office? apnews.com/article/trum...

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