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Oct 22, 2024 | 
pionline.com | Richard Kauffman
Breadcrumb Home INDUSTRY VOICES November 11, 2024 09:01 AM Tweet Share Share Email More Reprints Print Richard Kauffman The world is shifting to meet the growing demand for computing power. In late October, KKR and Energy Capital Partners announced a $50 billion strategic partnership to invest in data-center and power-generation projects to support advancements in artificial intelligence.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Heather Hahn |Richard Kauffman |Debie Thomas |Jonathan Tran
I’ve never been sure what to tell my kids about sex. Early on, rather than explaining how they were conceived, I borrowed the old line about storks delivering them to our door. Later, as a strategy for raising my daughter in a sex-depraved culture, I considered holding off potty training until her late teens. (Diapers: the ultimate mood killer.) As my kids got older, the stork story wore thin and potty training, sadly, took its normal course.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Heather Hahn |Debie Thomas |Richard Kauffman
Faith leaders and climate activists in Africa announced their support Friday for an international treaty to halt the production and use of fossil fuels, the main cause of climate change, analogous to non-proliferation treaties governing the production of nuclear weapons.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Heather Hahn |Debie Thomas |Richard Kauffman |Ron Adams
Psalm 124 is one of a small collection of psalms identified as songs of ascent. Or, as commentator John H. Hayes calls them, “songs of pilgrimage.” These are liturgical pieces intended for public acts of worship, to be sung or recited while the congregation makes its way to its gathering place. They begin with a call from the worship leader, followed by the response of the congregation. In Psalm 124 we catch a glimpse of something ancient and profound: God’s people testifying.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Debie Thomas |Richard Kauffman |Peter W. Marty |Bob Smietana
An investigation into how leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have dealt with sexual abuse by clergy has cost more than $12 million over the past three years, causing the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to put its Nashville, Tennessee, headquarters up for sale, the SBC’s executive committee announced on Tuesday.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Ron Adams |Debie Thomas |Richard Kauffman |Peter W. Marty
To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Earlier this year I offered our congregation a five-session study of the Bible. The focus was on what the Bible is, where it came from, who wrote it, and how it came down to us in multiple English language versions. It was a lot of work.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Debie Thomas |Richard Kauffman |Peter W. Marty |Claire Giangrave
After 40 years of studies, commissions and contradictions, the Vatican finally approved the spiritual devotion of the faithful at the Marian site at Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in a document issued on Thursday.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Heather Hahn |Randall Balmer |Debie Thomas |Richard Kauffman
The humanities have faced strong headwinds in recent years. While there are some notable exceptions to dwindling enrollment numbers, the overall decline of humanities majors is disconcerting. Friends of mine in higher education tell of whole departments being put on the chopping block, once popular courses being discontinued, and their own tenure suddenly in jeopardy.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Eliza Griswold |Debie Thomas |Richard Kauffman |Peter W. Marty
With all the attention on megachurches and the alliance of White evangelicals with the Republican Party, it was time someone examined the so-called religious left, a loose—very loose—network of progressive congregations united not so much by institutional bonds as by biblically informed perspectives on everything from poverty to sexual identity.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Debie Thomas |Richard Kauffman |Ron Adams
Carl Ruby, center, and other church representatives hug members of the Haitian community during a service at Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, on September 15. (RNS photo/Kathryn Post) “Jesus said that he is the way, the truth and the life. Jesus is with us in truth. And the truth is that Haitians are not eating pets in Springfield,” said senior pastor Carl Ruby, gripping the pulpit of Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio.
