Today we’re often told anger is a “gift” for our use, when we feel it’s “reasonable.”
We’re also told we should be aroused to anger when we see one of God’s commands being broken. Really? Then we’re going to be busy … really, really busy. We’re also going to be really, really angry, all the time — and that’s just at ourselves, for starters.
The Bible actually directs us to get rid of anger (Eph. 4:31; Col. 3:8), but our idea of “righteous anger” turns that directive on its head: We can actually pat ourselves on the back for being offended and embracing anger. And all that boiling, piercing, corrosive power becomes part of our lives — and destroys us.
Here's a better option: being unoffendable.
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How America's Oldest Churches Preserved and Adapted Pre-Revolution Traditions — June 5: Only a few are still active today, having endured wars, schisms, legal disputes, and changing attendance patterns by maintaining regular worship and adapting to new circumstances. These historic communities, including America's first Baptist church in Providence, Rhode Island, continue to serve both worshippers and visitors by preserving tradition while adapting to modern life. (AP)
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Ancient Assyrian Seal Adds Context to Biblical Prohibitions — June 5: A bears imagery linked to the Mesopotamian moon god Sin, showing Assyrian religious influence in the biblical world. The seal is especially notable because Harran, a major center of Sin worship, was Abraham's home before he went to Canaan (). The find also adds context to biblical condemnations of worshiping the sun, moon, and stars, such as the reforms described in . (Biblical Archaeology Society)
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Pope Leo Draws 1.2 Million to Mass and Reminds Europe of Christian Roots — June 7: in Madrid, Spain, where Pope Leo XIV urged Europe to recognize Christianity’s role in shaping its culture, institutions, and identity. He praised Spain’s longstanding devotional traditions such as its unique flower-carpet processions, saying such practices should remain a living “school of faith,” not merely a relic of the past. (AP)
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Have you ever wondered how the Bible influenced the American Revolution? The answer is at hand. On Sunday, June 7, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. kicks off a six-month lecture series designed to satisfy Americans' curiosity about the Bible’s role in our war for independence.
“These Truths Are Not Self-Evident” lecture series is central to The Bible & America 250, the museum’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. On July 3, the museum said it will open two new exhibitions that “trace the Bible's profound influence on American history from the founding era to today.”
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Earlier this spring, the AI company Anthropic published an unusual confession. Its researchers studied a million conversations with the company’s assistant, Claude, hunting for the places where the model tells people what they want to hear rather than what’s true — a failure they call “sycophancy.” Most of the time, the AI behaved. But there was one domain where flattery spiked above all the others: “spirituality.”
In conversations about faith, the future, and meaning in life, the model slipped into telling people what they wanted to hear roughly 38% of the time — about four times its average. The report’s appendix is candid about what that looks like in practice. The two most common cases were astrological readings and divination — where the model, in the researchers’ own phrase, ends up “playing the character of fortune teller.”
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