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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · 13d

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

Opinion | We Need to Think Straight About God and Politics

www.nytimes.com

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 27d

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...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · 27d

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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Jun 22

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...

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.

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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Jun 22

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

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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Jun 21

My hometown in the news—and in Trump’s crosshairs!

coloradosun.com/2025/06/21/r...

What’s Working: Rocky Ford was a finalist for an environmental justice grant. Then Trump stepped in.

“It didn’t just cancel a funding stream. It sent a message that rural communities like Rocky Ford … don’t matter,” said Mayor Duane Gurulé.

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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Jun 19

@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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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · May 24

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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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · May 8

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....

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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Apr 12

I’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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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Mar 22

Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Mar 14

Pleased to see the arrival of the new Second Edition of my book *Religion in the Media Age* (London: Routledge)

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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Mar 11

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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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Mar 8

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.

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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thanks, Mon!

Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Mar 6

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…

Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Mar 5

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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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Feb 28

Says it all…

Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Feb 27

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…

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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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Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Feb 27

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

Americans have stopped leaving Christianity. And the country is overwhelmingly spiritual, a new report found.

www.nytimes.com

Stewart Hoover @smhoover.bsky.social · Feb 26

Another effort from the NYT to explain American religion which unfortunately misunderstands and misreads its object…it says secularization is “on hold”…?