Stewart Hoover
@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...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
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November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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...
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!!
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The NYT should be ashamed of itself for running this today…and they decry the end of journalism!!
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
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
Opinion | We Need to Think Straight About God and Politics
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September 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
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
Reposted by Stewart Hoover
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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September 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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...
www.dailycamera.com/2025/06/22/c...
Medicaid cuts in Trump tax bill could close 6 rural hospitals in Colorado, report warns
The hospitals are spread across the state, including three on the Western Slope, one in the San Luis Valley and two on the Eastern Plains.
www.dailycamera.com
June 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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...
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
Medicaid cuts in Trump tax bill could close 6 rural hospitals in Colorado, report warns
June 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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
Medicaid cuts in Trump tax bill could close 6 rural hospitals in Colorado, report warns
@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…
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The problem of the Christian assassin
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June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@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…
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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.
Bankruptcy or Bust: Financial Desperation Doomed the Titan Sub
Unveiling the shocking truth behind OceanGate's catastrophic implosion and the compromising decisions driven by dire financial situation.
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May 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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.
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....
May 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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....
Pleased to see the arrival of the new Second Edition of my book *Religion in the Media Age* (London: Routledge)
March 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Pleased to see the arrival of the new Second Edition of my book *Religion in the Media Age* (London: Routledge)
Up next: a Trump executive order prohibiting market slides… www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Trump Live Updates: U.S. Stocks Plunge as Economic Fears Grow and Latest Tariffs News
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March 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Up next: a Trump executive order prohibiting market slides… www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
This 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...
Christians Are Pressing Trump to Clear a Path for Israel to Annex the West Bank
Some 80 percent of white, evangelical Christians voted for President Trump. Now, some want a policy change that could undermine a future Palestinian state.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This 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...
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…
March 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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…
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
Opinion | How Jay Bhattacharya, the First Health Economist Tapped to Run the N.I.H., Can Lead Reform
Can Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reform America’s primary medical research agency?
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March 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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
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...
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Decline in American Christian observance has slowed, Pew study finds
(RNS) – ‘The U.S. is a spiritual place, a religious place, where we’ve seen signs of religious stabilization in the midst of longer-term decline,’ said Gregory Smith, a senior associate director of re...
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February 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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...
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...
One Nation, Under God www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
One Nation, Under God
Americans have stopped leaving Christianity. And the country is overwhelmingly spiritual, a new report found.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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...
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”…?
February 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Another effort from the NYT to explain American religion which unfortunately misunderstands and misreads its object…it says secularization is “on hold”…?
Oh great…the guy who bankrupted casinos, an airline, etc. is going to run the Post Office? apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says he may take control of the US Postal Service. Here's what to know
President Donald Trump says he may put the U.S. Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department in what would amount to an executive branch takeover of the independent agency.
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February 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Oh great…the guy who bankrupted casinos, an airline, etc. is going to run the Post Office? apnews.com/article/trum...
Something to be proud of today…
February 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Something to be proud of today…
This reads like the bizarre fantasies of a madman. Brett has lost touch with reality…
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...
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Opinion | The Horror Show of Hamas Must End Now
The region needs to be put to a choice about Gaza’s future.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This reads like the bizarre fantasies of a madman. Brett has lost touch with reality…
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...
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...
More than two dozen Christian and Jewish denominations and associations—including the Church of the Brethren—sue to protect religious freedoms – News
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February 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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...