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Televangelists to Deepfakes: Who Defines the Sacred in the Age of AI? + John Fugelsang

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When outrage wins the algorithm, what does faith become?

This live conversation from the RNS Symposium at Trinity Commons wrestles with a bracing question: when faith, power and platform collapse into the same feed, who gets to define what’s sacred? Host Amanda Henderson and guest John Fugelsang trace a line from open source Scripture to televangelist TV to AI resurrecting voices, exploring how media mirrors our clicks — and how those clicks shape the moral imagination we live in. They name the seduction of outrage, the costs of fundamentalism and a red-letter way forward grounded in humility, service and care for “the least of these.” Warm, wise and a little irreverent, this episode invites us to be more mindful about what we amplify and why it matters now.