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Evangelical Views Toward Israel Slip to New Low

Evangelical Christians are not immune to growing negative sentiment toward Israel among Americans, a new Pew Research Center survey found. While white evangelicals are still more likely to back Israel’s government than other religious groups, their support has plunged since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The percentage of white evangelicals with a favorable view Read more. The post Evangelical Views Toward Israel Slip to New Low appeared first on Christianity Today

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Culture

Why Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Haunts Us Right Now

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. One of the biggest cultural events this summer isn’t a superhero sequel or a streaming series. It’s a 3,000-year-old Greek poem. That The Odyssey would be a box office powerhouse is not all that unexpected—after all, filmmaker Christopher Nolan gave us The Dark Knight Rises and Oppenheimer. But this is more than Read more. The post Why Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Haunts Us Right Now appeared first on Christianity Today

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Geopolitics

What should be done to address the conflict between Israel and Hamas to ensure safety for everyone involved?

Heavy Israeli bombardment killed four people in Gaza City on Tuesday, Palestinian health officials said, in what both sides described as an Israeli-backed ground operation to seize a senior Hamas figure. Eyewitnesses reported around a dozen strikes on Tuesday morning in western Gaza City, where the territory's civil defence agency said four people were killed: three children and a woman. Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital confirmed the toll given by the civil defence, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas

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Society

How can communities best support families affected by floods and the loss of loved ones?

In Nepal, the death toll continues to rise. Every day, new bodies are recovered, but many remain unidentifiable. Several days after the devastating floods, some are already in an advanced state of decomposition. Faced with the influx of remains, authorities have begun burying them without formal identification, primarily to limit health risks and the strong odours. FRANCE 24's special correspondents traveled to Bharatpur, in southern Nepal, to one of these burial sites

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Geopolitics

568. MAGA's Plan to Make Britain Look Broken and Iceland's 'Brexit' Moment

Did Iceland's rejection of EU membership talks repeat the same mistakes as Britain's Remain campaign, and does it hand a dangerous propaganda win to Farage, Putin, and the wider anti-European right? As Russia warns of "consequences" over British missiles built in Ukraine, is the West sleepwalking towards direct confrontation? With one in four Americans now convinced British society is broken, is Trump deliberately weaponising Britain to justify its own domestic agenda? Join Rory and Alastair ...

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