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Confront, Forgive, and Forget – OpentheWord.org

Confront, Forgive, and Forget – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

…If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. — Luke 17:3 By Rick Renner It is difficult for most people to confront someone else regarding an offense, but sometimes confrontation is necessary. Ignoring confrontation is often what causes bad feelings to turn inward and fester into something much worse. Those ugly feelings can sit in the pit of a person’s stomach, churning away until he becomes so upset that he can hardly see straight. Usually it’s better to kindly say what you feel and get over it than to let those raw emotions turn into an ugly monster, just waiting to crawl out at an opportune moment and attack its victim. That is frequently what happens when you allow ugly emotions to go unchecked. Confrontation may be uncomfortable, but it’s a lot less painful than having to apologize later for erupting in a fit of flesh like a volcano that spews destructive lava all over its surroundings. This is exactly why Jesus said, “…If thy brother trespass against thee, …

Tribal gaming leaders confront federal push over sports prediction markets

Tribal gaming leaders confront federal push over sports prediction markets

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Tribal leaders from around the country came together this week as the Indian Gaming Association’s Board of Directors met at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego alongside its annual tradeshow, tackling financial business before turning to a fast-growing fight over sports prediction markets. The board approved a formal resolution pushing back on efforts by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to oversee so-called event contracts, including sports betting. Tribal leaders argue those products function as gambling and should remain under tribal and state jurisdiction, not federal financial regulators. IGA statement: The Indian Gaming Association welcomes the introduction of the “Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act” @RWW pic.twitter.com/IBKM0rHYiI — Suswati Basu (@suswatibasu) March 23, 2026 Chairman David Z. Bean said the decision reflects a broader effort to defend long-standing tribal authority in gaming. “Today, our Board took decisive action to protect what generations before us fought to build,” Bean said. “These so-called prediction markets are an attempt to bypass tribal authority and recast gambling as a financial product. We will not allow that. We will stand united to …

Want to live forever? There are major questions to confront, first 

Want to live forever? There are major questions to confront, first 

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Billionaires, for all their money, face one ordinary limit: death. No matter how much you spend, no matter how many doctors you employ, you cannot escape the moment at which you cease to be. That is, perhaps, until now. As we report here, a start-up called Nectome has developed a technique for preserving the physical architecture of the brain in the minutes after death. Tested so far in pigs but soon to be offered to people, the idea is that this could be used to reconstruct the brain’s “connectome”, a 3D map of its structure – and in doing so, provide a path to resurrection.To be clear, we have no idea how to create a working consciousness from a connectome, nor whether it will ever be possible to do so. As we explore here, consciousness remains a deep mystery – complete with a famous “hard problem” – that we are still only starting to grasp. Besides the scientific problem of consciousness, there are questions – can a brain be recreated digitally on a computer, or …

Central banks confront spectre of inflation as Iran war escalates – Business

Central banks confront spectre of inflation as Iran war escalates – Business

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again BUSINESS DAILY © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 19/03/2026 – 11:45Modified: 19/03/2026 – 11:47 05:27 min From the show Reading time 1 min Strikes on the natural gas production facilities of Iran and Qatar have sent energy prices soaring, with central bankers around the world struggling to set monetary policy amid a highly uncertain inflationary outlook. We take a closer look. Also in this edition: the French shipbuilding industry welcomes the start of construction of the country’s next nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. By: Source link

How to use the classroom as a place to confront antisemitism without deepening divisions

How to use the classroom as a place to confront antisemitism without deepening divisions

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Since Oct. 7, 2023, Jewish students, from kindergarten through high school and on college campuses, have reported rising antisemitism, social isolation and fear. Muslim and Arab students have likewise described harassment, suspicion and grief. All of these young people have witnessed the horrors of the Middle East conflict unfold on their phones, where extreme narratives and graphic images fracture friendships and harden identities. The instinct in some communities has been to pull back: avoid the topic, protect students, keep school “neutral.” But silence is neither neutral nor protective. Avoidance can deepen the very divisions educators hope to prevent.  Over the past year, our team at the newly launched Or Initiative at Chapman University has interviewed more than 75 middle and high school students across Jewish day, independent and public schools, along with educators and school leaders. We examined how young people are making sense of the Israel-Palestine conflict and other contentious issues in digital environments saturated with incomplete and emotionally charged claims. Our findings, released in “Coming of Age in Polarized Times: Teaching …

Germany is being forced to confront its growing competition with China

Germany is being forced to confront its growing competition with China

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New cars from China at the JadeWeserPort, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, March 25, 2025. HAUKE-CHRISTIAN DITTRICH/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES To prepare for his first trip to China, scheduled for Wednesday, February 25, and Thursday, February 26, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz invited several of Germany’s leading experts on the People’s Republic of China to a meeting on February 17. Jörg Wuttke, who represented the chemical giant BASF in China from 1997 to 2024 and who serves as president of the European Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, was present that evening. “The chancellor wanted to know how to build a personal connection with Chinese officials. He is preparing for this trip very carefully. He has only been to China once, 20 years ago, so he does not have an intimate knowledge of the country,” Wuttke told Le Monde. Merz, traveling with a delegation of about 30 business leaders, will visit Beijing and then Hangzhou, a major hub for humanoid robotics. The chancellor’s relative inexperience on Chinese affairs is unlikely to make things easier, especially as opinions in Germany …

Yuko Mohri’s Fragile Sculptures Confront the Inevitability of Change

Yuko Mohri’s Fragile Sculptures Confront the Inevitability of Change

Published by José Betancourt

On the first preview day of the 2024 Venice Biennale, a torrential downpour sent artists, curators, journalists, and dealers scurrying for shelter. While others fretted about how the art on view would weather the sheets of rain, Yuko Mohri, the sculptor representing Japan that year, felt unusually relaxed. If all this water destroyed a new set of her installations making their debut in the Giardini, she didn’t mind so much. The raised building that houses the Japanese Pavilion was itself porous this time around—two skylights in the ceiling and an aperture in the floor were left open, and one sculpture was even placed beneath the cantilevered roof that holds up the structure. Another installation was itself about water, in a way. To make it, Mohri created tenuous arrangements of tables, fruits, speakers, and other refuse that she sourced from shops in Venice. Water flowed through the pavilion via plastic piping that wended its way around her secondhand objects. Part of a series called “Moré Moré (Leaky)” that Mohri began in 2015, the installation would occasionally …

Ukrainian Pavilion at Venice to Confront Broken Security Promises

Ukrainian Pavilion at Venice to Confront Broken Security Promises

Published by José Betancourt

The Ukrainian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale will take aim at a question that has haunted the country for decades: what are security guarantees worth? According to an announcement made in Kyiv on February 5, the pavilion will focus on the failure of international promises to protect Ukraine. Titled “Security Guarantees,” the project refers to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, an agreement signed by Ukraine, the UK, the US, and Russia, under which Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for assurances of protection. “Thirty years ago, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons and signed documents that promised security,” says Zhanna Kadyrova, the artist representing Ukraine at Venice. “These guarantees were supposed to protect us. But they existed only on paper.” Related Articles At the center of the pavilion will be Kadyrova’s Origami Deer, a concrete sculpture that has itself been shaped by the war. First installed in 2019 in a park in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the work was dismantled and moved across the country in 2024 as the Russian frontline …

Christians have a duty to confront Islamophobia, ministers argue in new book

Christians have a duty to confront Islamophobia, ministers argue in new book

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(RNS) — In their years of interfaith work, the Revs. Anna Piela and Michael Woolf have heard an oft-repeated reason for why some Christians don’t want to learn about Islam or are reluctant to challenge their misconceptions about the faith: They fear they might convert. But in their new book, “Confronting Islamophobia in the Church: Liturgical Tools for Justice,” the authors — who are American Baptist Churches USA ministers and a married couple — argue that learning about Islam, or any other religion, can help Christians better appreciate and practice their own tradition.  “I think a lot of people sort of treat God as a really jealous lover in some way, that they’re really afraid that God is going to be angry that you’re learning about another religion,” Woolf, who is senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, told Religion News Service. “But I think God rejoices in diversity and wants us to learn from each other.” The book, published by Judson Press last month, also asserts that Christians have a moral responsibility …

Chaotic moment neighbours confront alleged burglars, leading to physical fight

Chaotic moment neighbours confront alleged burglars, leading to physical fight

Published by Sam Flores

Shocking footage shows neighbours confronting five alleged burglars in Dunbar, Scotland, as they attempted to flee a home in a white car on 23 January. Three of the suspects reportedly attacked a neighbour before driving off with stolen jewellery and cash. Police confirmed an investigation is ongoing into the housebreaking, urging anyone with information to come forward. Source link