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An Amazon Go store in Seattle features a sign stating: "Enter and pay with your palm." Panera Bread is testing similar palm-scanning technology. © By Rocky Grimes/stock.adobe.com

A palm scan to buy food and the “Promethean moment” now upon us

Jim Denison, PhD

If you could order and pay for food with your palm, would you do it? Panera Bread café is hoping you’ll say yes to palm scanning, but first you should know the conditions: you’ll obtain a MyPanera membership, then link…

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An Amazon Go store in Seattle features a sign stating: "Enter and pay with your palm." Panera Bread is testing similar palm-scanning technology. © By Rocky Grimes/stock.adobe.com

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A palm scan to buy food and the “Promethean moment” now upon us

Jim Denison, PhD

Current events

ChatGPT and artificial intelligence: What you need to know

Jim Denison, PhD

Bill Gates reacts during a visit with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Imperial College University, in central London, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2023. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP)

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Bill Gates warns AI could “decide that humans are a threat”

Jim Denison, PhD

FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 10, 2023. On Wednesday, March 8, 2023, Newsom announced he would not renew a state contract with Walgreens after the company indicated it would not sell abortion pills in some conservative-led states. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, File). Actions like this are leading some cities and communities in the United States to consider secession.

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Cities and communities are withdrawing from the US

Jim Denison, PhD

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An Amazon Go store in Seattle features a sign stating: "Enter and pay with your palm." Panera Bread is testing similar palm-scanning technology. © By Rocky Grimes/stock.adobe.com

Current events

A palm scan to buy food and the “Promethean moment” now upon us

Jim Denison, PhD

Current events

ChatGPT and artificial intelligence: What you need to know

Jim Denison, PhD

Bill Gates reacts during a visit with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Imperial College University, in central London, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2023. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP)

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Bill Gates warns AI could “decide that humans are a threat”

Jim Denison, PhD

FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 10, 2023. On Wednesday, March 8, 2023, Newsom announced he would not renew a state contract with Walgreens after the company indicated it would not sell abortion pills in some conservative-led states. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, File). Actions like this are leading some cities and communities in the United States to consider secession.

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Cities and communities are withdrawing from the US

Jim Denison, PhD

Images created by Eliot Higgins with the use of artificial intelligence show a fictitious skirmish with Donald Trump and New York City police officers posted on Higgins' Twitter account, as photographed on an iPhone in Arlington, Va., Thursday, March 23, 2023. The highly detailed, sensational images, which are not real, were produced using a sophisticated and widely accessible image generator. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

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Trump deepfakes and TikTok’s troubling algorithm reveal our deepest need

Ryan Denison, PhD

Gwyneth Paltrow sits in court, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Park City, Utah. Paltrow is on trial, accused of injuring another skier, leaving him with a concussion and four broken ribs. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s trial and “Celebrity Worship Syndrome”

Jim Denison, PhD

A still photo from the film Jesus Revolution with Jonathan Roumie playing Lonnie Frisbee. Photo credit: Dan Anderson.

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Why is the Greg Laurie movie “Jesus Revolution” so popular?

Jim Denison, PhD

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Trump said in a social media post that he expects to be arrested Tuesday as a New York prosecutor is eyeing charges in a case examining hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president. Trump provided no evidence that suggested he was directly informed of a pending arrest and did not say how he knew of such plans. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Will Donald Trump be indicted today? A week “unlike any other in American politics”

Jim Denison, PhD

This combination of photos shows former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden, right. Biden and Trump are preparing for a possible rematch in 2024. (AP Photo/File). Biden and Trump represent the growing partisan animosity that has some voters wondering if America should get a divorce. This combination of photos shows former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden, right. Biden and Trump are preparing for a possible rematch in 2024. (AP Photo/File). Biden and Trump represent the growing partisan animosity that has some voters wondering: Should America should get a divorce?

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Should the United States get a “national divorce”?

Jim Denison, PhD

Preschool-age hands hold a remote displaying buttons for YouTube and Netflix. Ridley Jones, a Netflix series for preschoolers, recently featured a nonbinary character coming out and desiring to be called "they." © By Tricky Shark/stock.adobe.com

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Netflix show for preschoolers features nonbinary character “coming out”

Jim Denison, PhD

Arizona State's Desmond Cambridge Jr. (4) goes to the basket against Nevada's Darrion Williams (5) during the second half of a First Four college basketball game in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, aka March Madness, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

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March Madness tips off today: How the NCAA tournament became a cultural phenomenon

Ryan Denison, PhD

A Bible study group is gathered around a table, Bibles open, hands clasped in prayer, indicative of what the church is © By brain2hands/stock.adobe.com

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Does the church still matter today? Why that’s the wrong question for us to ask

Ryan Denison, PhD

FILE - Stacie Wood and her husband, Andy Wood, stand for a portrait on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. Stacie Wood, the woman pastor at the center of the Southern Baptist Convention's decision to oust Saddleback Church, has said in February 2023, she will continue to serve as a ministry leader despite her longstanding ties to the nation's largest Protestant denomination. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, File)

Biblical living

Should women hold ministry leadership positions?

Denison Forum

Actor Rainn Wilson calls out anti-Christian bias in Hollywood. In the photo, he attends the premiere for "Blackbird" on day two of the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, 2019, in Toronto.

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Rainn Wilson calls out “anti-Christian bias in Hollywood” following “The Last of Us”

Mark Legg

Security guards let individuals enter the Silicon Valley Bank's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., on Monday, March 13, 2023. The federal government intervened Sunday to secure funds for depositors to withdraw from Silicon Valley Bank after the bank's collapse. Dozens of individuals waited in line outside the bank to withdraw funds. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy)

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Is my money safe? Explaining the Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Ryan Denison, PhD

The cast and crew of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" accepts the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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“Everything Everywhere All at Once” wins Oscar for Best Picture

Jim Denison, PhD

Unaccompanied minors enter US and work in harsh conditions, despite having sponsor families. A hand grips iron bars at a construction site.

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Explosion of unaccompanied migrant children leads to exploitation in “brutal” jobs

Mark Legg

A protester shouts anti-government slogans by a burning barricade set up by members of the police to protest bad police governance in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. A wave of grisly killings of police officers by gangs has spurred outrage and protests by Haitians. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

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Haiti in anarchy: How “the most evangelized realm in all the world” fell into chaos

Ryan Denison, PhD

Popular culture

In “Beyond Racial Division,” Dr. George Yancey argues that colorblindness and antiracism aren’t helpful: How do we heal racial division?

Mark Legg

FILE - People gather to protest against HB1041, a bill to ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports that match their gender identity, during a rally at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy File)

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Christian school forfeits playoff game against team with transgender student

Jim Denison, PhD

A seismograph shows earthquake activity in front of a world map. © By Andrey VP/stock.adobe.com. Rabbi Shlomo Amar recently indicated that earthquakes in Israel are a direct result of the rise of LGBTQ rights in his country.

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Rabbi blames earthquakes in Israel on rise of LGBTQ rights

Jim Denison, PhD

FILE - A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File). The US Energy Department has concluded that the COVID origin was most likely a lab leak.

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Energy Department says lab leak most likely origin of COVID-19 pandemic

Jim Denison, PhD

Tim Tebow attends the Disney 2022 Upfront presentation at Basketball City Pier 36 on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP). His recent “Night to Shine” event and the ending of the Asbury Revival services both point to God's specific love for each of us.

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Tim Tebow’s “Night to Shine” and the end of Asbury Revival services

Jim Denison, PhD

FILE - In this handout photo released by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Plesetsk in Russia's northwest. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service via AP, File). Such actions have many asking, "Is World War III starting?"

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Why World War III will not start in Ukraine

Ryan Denison, PhD

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