@smhoover.bsky.social
Professor of media and religion
Very troubling…but what about the “spiritual” implications that are mentioned but glossed over?
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
The NYT should be ashamed of itself for running this today…and they decry the end of journalism!!
15.11.2025 01:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We Need to Think Straight About God and Politics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...
Well done. I’d have added Jimmy Kimmel’s invocation of faith on his return in the list of recent examples. Otherwise only the right has such language. That’s one of the causes of the problem @nytdavidbrooks
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
11.09.2025 22:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My home town in the news *again* for being in Trump’s crosshairs.., second time this week. What’s next?
www.dailycamera.com/2025/06/22/c...
My home town in the news *again* for being in Trump’s crosshairs.., second time this week. What’s next?
Medicaid cuts in Trump tax bill could close 6 rural hospitals in Colorado, report warns
My hometown in the news—and in Trump’s crosshairs!
coloradosun.com/2025/06/21/r...
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social finally notices @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Maybe if he’d been reading Jeff earlier David wouldn’t have been so surprised about what’s been happening on the Religious Right…
messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
gcaptain.com/bankruptcy-o.... A lesson for all of us in the time of Trump and the “tech bros..” Do we need a more vivid example of the dangers of unbridled entrepreneurial hubris than the Titan disaster? No…we can’t just follow the technology where it supposedly leads us.
24.05.2025 15:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We know at least some of the cardinals saw this image....did the Vatican just join Canada and Australia in having an "anti-Trump" election? inquiring minds....
08.05.2025 23:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ll admit to anti-Christian bias: I’m biased against Christian snowflakes who can’t stand to be confronted about the contradictions between the Gospel and *their* biases…
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Pleased to see the arrival of the new Second Edition of my book *Religion in the Media Age* (London: Routledge)
14.03.2025 20:39 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Up next: a Trump executive order prohibiting market slides… www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
11.03.2025 02:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is the realization of a long strategy by the State of Israel. Those trips for pious Christians during which they met none of the actual Christians living there but came away with brimming support for the Jewish state and its implicit plans for the territories… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/w...
08.03.2025 23:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks, Mon!
08.03.2025 22:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mt. McKinley from the air this morning.. the Gods have decreed that we won’t see again until Trump changes the name back to Denali…
06.03.2025 20:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sure its fine as long as we keep remembering that, as a discipline, evonomics is moral theology masquerading as social science…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/opinion/jay-bhattacharya-nih.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
05.03.2025 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Says it all…
28.02.2025 22:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This interpretation of these results is misleading…the study is comparing 2014 and 2024 results and the decline has continued…but a ten year time gap doesn’t really help us understand actual trends…
religionnews.com/2025/02/26/d...
I'm afraid this piece does not make a convincing case that US secularization is "on hold." As with so many accounts, it also confuses what it actually means by "religion."
One Nation, Under God www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
Another effort from the NYT to explain American religion which unfortunately misunderstands and misreads its object…it says secularization is “on hold”…?
26.02.2025 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh great…the guy who bankrupted casinos, an airline, etc. is going to run the Post Office? apnews.com/article/trum...
24.02.2025 15:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Something to be proud of today…
21.02.2025 20:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are repeating history…did we in education fail? Civics mandate in middle school or before eligibility for benefits?
16.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This reads like the bizarre fantasies of a madman. Brett has lost touch with reality…
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...
Here’s some pushback from non-Trump, non religious-nationalist, non Catholic Integralist American religion: groups directly harmed by Trumps attempts to shut down sevices to Immigrants and regugees… www.brethren.org/news/2025/su...
11.02.2025 22:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Red-State R1s should retaliate by shifting funding away from their football programs….https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/08/trump-nih-university-funding-014838
09.02.2025 15:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ignorance of this is just stunning. Are there any sentient Republicans left?
07.02.2025 00:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
