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Televangelists to Deepfakes: Who Defines the Sacred in the Age of AI? + John Fugelsang

When outrage wins the algorithm, what does faith become? This live conversation from the RNS Symposium at Trinity Commons wrestles with a bracing question: when faith, power, and platform collapse into the same feed, who gets...

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Oct. 27, 2025

Televangelists to Deepfakes: Who Defines the Sacred in the Age of AI…

When outrage wins the algorithm, what does faith become? This live conversation from the RNS Symposium at Trinity Commons wrestles with a bracing question: when faith, power, and platform collapse into the same feed, who gets...

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Oct. 20, 2025

Cease-Fire Isn’t Peace: Inside the Vatican’s Quiet Work on Gaza

When peacemaking is quiet, stubborn, and deeply human. In this conversation, host Amanda Henderson sits with RNS reporter Claire Giangravè to open the door on Vatican diplomacy during the Gaza cease-fire. We hear about priest...

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Oct. 13, 2025

Willow Creek’s Midlife Reckoning: How a Seeker Church Became the Mega…

How the “church of the future” grew up—and owned its past. In the fall of 1975, a youth pastor rented a suburban movie theater and swapped hymns for rock, sermons for storytelling, and pews for folding chairs—calling it seeke...

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Oct. 6, 2025

Baptizing the Battlefield: Pete Hegseth’s Holy War at the Pentagon

What happens when the Pentagon becomes a pulpit?

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Sept. 29, 2025

Faith, Labor, and a DOJ Reversal: Inside the BAPS Temple Case

How a sacred idea of service collided with American labor rules.

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Sept. 22, 2025

Pulpit Politics: Why the Johnson Amendment Still Sparks Political Dra…

What happens when politics steps into the pulpit? The Johnson Amendment has been around since the 1950s, but it’s still a political lightning rod today. In this episode of Complexified , Amanda Henderson sits down with RNS co...

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