The now-infamous congressional hearing was one filled with sensational claims about UFOs. Despite the government's rebranding of UFOs with a less-stigmatized acronym – unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP – the hearing still captivated a public long obsessed with ideas of flying saucers and little green men. (Lagatta, USA Today)
Read MoreThe film Heretic, directed by screenwriting duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, explores the plausibility of this kind of freeing faith. Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant) has entrapped two young Latter-day Saint missionaries, Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East) in his home. (Marchbanks, Christianity Today)
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Read MoreJustin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, has stepped down following an investigation that concluded he failed to report serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps to authorities promptly upon learning of it. Welby expressed a "profound sense of shame" over "the historic safeguarding failures of the Church of England." (Henderson & Carroll, Newsweek)
Read MoreShaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” holds at No. 1 for a 17th total week atop the Billboard Hot 100. Over the chart’s 66-year history, the song is now outright the longest-leading No. 1 ever by an artist with no accompanying credited acts, surpassing the 16-week command of Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” in 2023. (Trust, Billboard)
Read MoreThe Most Rev Justin Welby has overseen a historic decline in the size of the Church of England over his time in office, with the number of congregants falling by 25,000 a year, figures show. Since 2013, usual Sunday church attendance has fallen from 788,000 to 557,000, effectively the largest average year-on-year decline since comparable figures were produced in the early 1970s. (Butcher, The Telegraph)
Read MoreU.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles in Baton Rouge said the law had an "overtly religious" purpose, and rejected state officials' claims that the government can mandate the posting of the Ten Commandments because they hold historical significance to the foundation of U.S. law. His opinion noted that no other foundational documents — including the Constitution or the Bill of Rights — must be posted. (AP/NPR)
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