A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B. Often boosted by social media, many of them got their start with independent labels or by uploading self-made songs to streaming platforms. (Kramon, AP News)
Read MoreAmid a wave of high-profile killings and political violence in the United States, investigators have been confounded regularly by the absence of a recognizable agenda. While the hatred of these attackers sometimes veered into racist views, what stood out to investigators was the broader desire to attack all of society. (Whoriskey, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThe Church of England has fallen “tragically short” in protecting people from abuse, but must now strive to be a “stable presence in an unstable world”, the new Archbishop of Canterbury has said in her first speech. (Burgess, The Times UK)
Read MoreAnthropic, recently valued at $350 billion, is one of a few firms ushering in the greatest technological shift of our time… [and] few in the industry have addressed the character of their AI models in quite the same way as 5-year-old Anthropic: by entrusting a single person with so much of the task. (Jin & Gamerman, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreThe number of Americans who anticipate they will have “high-quality lives” in five years’ time has dropped to a nearly two-decade low, according to a poll released Tuesday. (Wu, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThe day after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home under the cover of night, her daughter, Savannah, made a heartbreaking appeal to pray for her mother. Guthrie’s faith – and insistence on the power of prayer – has been central throughout the almost weeklong saga of her mother’s disappearance. (Bailey, CNN)
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