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Bethany Christian Services, long described as the country’s largest Protestant adoption and foster care agency, will no longer allow LGBTQ couples to foster or adopt. In a press release posted Wednesday, the Michigan-based agency announced that its board voted to “clarify and reinforce” its Christian faith commitments. Those changes require staff and board members to Read more. The post Bethany Christian Will No Longer Allow LGBTQ Parents to Foster and Adopt appeared first on Christianity Today
Jenny Espino had bariatric surgery in 2006, when she was 20 years old and weighed 271 pounds. After the surgery, she lost over 100 pounds and maintained that weight loss until 2020, through the ups and downs of having children. Then, said the mom of four in southern California, “I got a back injury from Read more. The post Christians Debate Drugs vs. Discipline in the Age of Ozempic appeared first on Christianity Today
This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. John Anthony Dunne and Jeannine K. Brown, The Greatest Story Ever Retold: Envisioning Jesus Narratives from Gospels to Film (Baker Academic, 2026) In a bid to forestall the unthinking consumption of deceptively slick misrepresentations, many a pastor and parent issue knee-jerk prohibitions whenever the film industry Read more. The post What Makes a Jesus Movie Faithful to the Gospels? appeared first on Christianity Today
Yoko Li and Justine Moore speak with Ideogram founder and CEO Mohammad Norouzi about image generation models, design workflows, and the evolving relationship between AI and creative work. The conversation covers Ideogram's decision to release an open-weight model, the challenges of generating text and layouts within images, and why controllability has become an increasingly important area of research. They discuss prompting, customization, editing, and the tradeoffs between general-purpose mo...
Theo Jaffee speaks with Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis, about AI, industrial capacity, economic growth, and the institutions that shape civilization. The conversation explores how AI’s demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure could trigger a new wave of industrial expansion, benefiting sectors far beyond technology. Burja argues that AI is not just a software story but a demand shock that will ripple through energy, manufacturing, construction, and global supply chains. They a...
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Alex Modon, cofounder and CEO at Unlimited Industries, and Davide Asnaghi, CEO at Diode Computers, about how AI is moving from software into the physical world. They discuss automating construction and electronics design, using code and simulation to model real-world systems, and how incentives and manufacturing constraints shape adoption. They also examine what it takes to scale infrastructure, reduce build times, and unlock more abundant industrial capacity in ...