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Here’s where theology gets weird. The ancestors who were venerated at the kingdom of Ugarit included an ancient Amorite tribe called the Tidnum or Tidanu by the last Sumerian kings of Mesopotamia. At Ugarit, they were called the Ditanu or Didanu. This tribe was so frightening, the Sumerians of Ur built a 170-mile long wall to “keep Tidnum away.”
Netflix debuted its trailer for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Thursday, teasing viewers with glimpses at Baphomet, demonic rituals, pentagrams, spells and more. “We are living in a golden age of Satanic coming-of-age tales,” Katie Rife of the AV Club writes. The poster for the series, released Wednesday, gives the titular character horns as the Satanic icon Baphomet hovers behind her. Netflix says Chilling Adventures of Sabrina imagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft. Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling…
The Emmy Awards began this week with a monologue from co-hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che. The Saturday Night Live cast members recited a typical litany of political jabs and sarcastic digs. Then Che told the audience that his mother would not be watching the show. The reason: “She says she doesn’t like watching white award shows because you guys don’t thank Jesus enough.” Che continued: “That’s true. The only white people that thank Jesus are Republicans and ex-crackheads.” It’s hard to imagine such a joke aimed at Muslims, Jews, or Buddhists. But ridiculing Christians is fair game in Hollywood these days…
When the 2016 presidential election results came in and GOP nominee Donald Trump had defeated Hillary Clinton, long considered the Democrats’ entitled candidate, Mark Taylor and his friends weren’t surprised. They expected Trump to win, based on what Taylor had been told, he believes by the Holy Spirit, five years earlier. The story of his stunning prediction soon was told in a book called “The Trump Prophecies.” Now it’s on the silver screen, scheduled in theaters for special showings Oct. 2 and Oct. 4 only. The book recounts how Taylor, a retired firefighter, was given a message on April 28, 2011, that said Trump would be the next president. That was years before Trump even announced his candidacy…
Yehudis Schamroth is not a rabbi, a rabbi’s wife nor a Jewish educator. She’s an American Jew, now living in Israel, with a fire in her soul for geula (redemption). In 2017, Schamroth started The Miriam Project, focused on raising worldwide awareness that the final redemption is just around the corner. She raises awareness by interviewing people who have something to say about the impending redemption. Her most recent interview was with Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski [who told her] “The geula is one of the most important topics of today. For thousands of years, we have been looking forward to the geula. We believed in it and it was real. But in recent years, the things that have happened have made it… imminent. There’s no question in my mind that we are in the [footsteps] of Moshiach (Messiah) and that we will soon be the beneficiaries of the geula shalayma (complete and final redemption)…
Kayla Stoecklein, widow of late Inland Hills Church Lead Pastor Andrew Stoecklein, who died after attempting suicide at his church last month, says she is confident her husband is in Heaven despite the enduring “myth” that suicide victims are condemned to Hell. “This is a common misbelief about suicide and it breaks my heart. I’ll be the first to admit prior to Andrew’s death I may have actually believed it to be true,” Kayla, 29, wrote on her family’s God’s Got This blog Tuesday. “I remember leaning over to my mother in law, Carol, in the hospital room as my husband lay there dying, whispering through my tears, ‘Will he go to heaven?’ She quickly reassured me, as I am confident now: whether you are accepted into heaven or not has nothing to do with how you die. The only way we are accepted into heaven is through a personal relationship with Jesus,” she said.
The US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has created a brain-computer interface that enables a person to control everything from a swarm of drones to an advanced fighter jet using nothing but their thoughts and a special brain chip. In 2015, the basic principle of flying a plane using a surgically implanted microchip was demonstrated, but continued development of the brain-computer interface (BCI) has created a two-way connection enabling the pilot to not only send commands to the craft but also to receive signals…
After a former Sesame Street scribe said he wrote Bert and Ernie “as a loving couple,” Sesame Workshop, the education organization behind the children’s program, issued a statement proclaiming that the beloved characters “do not have a sexual orientation.” “As we have always said, Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves,” the statement read. “Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street puppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.”
President Donald Trump is only a year and a half into his presidency and he remains one of the most controversial political figures of the day. Despite this, evangelical Christians have expressed their faithful support for him and his conservative policies. One group dedicated to challenging evangelicals and their positive relationship with the administration is The Satanic Temple (TST). “The Satanic Temple attracted ‘thousands’ of new members in just the first 36 hours after the election of Donald Trump,” the group reported. “The 4-year-old temple, which had a pre-Trump membership of around 50,000, has never before seen a spike in registration nearly this big.”
