Top Five Friday 23-7

Top five news items and other media items from February 8 to February 16

1. Christianity Today: On February 8 a round-the-clock worship service spontaneously started in a seminary chapel service in obscure Wilmore, Kentucky, a town of 6,000 - and hasn’t yet ended. The spiritual movement has reportedly spread to Ohio and beyond. (Many times in my life I’ve heard spiritual leaders ask God to send spiritual revival, a longing for a sort of Fifth Great Awakening. In 1997 I went to Promise Keepers’ Stand in the Gap in Washington D.C. with a million Christian men, and went back home to Chicago convinced spiritual revival would break out across the country. Sadly, it did not. Is this different? Is this the start of a spiritual revival?)

2. PBS: Social media companies face legal scrutiny over deteriorating mental health among teens. Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R) proposes 16-year age requirement for social media use.

3. Seymour Hersh on Substack: The U.S. blew up Russia’s Nordstream pipelines. (Obama era CIA Director John Brennan blamed Russia for blowing up their own pipelines.)

4. The Washington Stand: The leader of Scotland resigned on Wednesday after her months-long advocacy of an extreme transgender bill.

5. PBS: Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., announced her presidential campaign. The Babylon Bee revealed what she’s really up to.

   Tweet of the week:

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The brilliant @0rf created a mini-documentary - entitled "The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation" - on how much @NicolleDWallace reflexively spreads lies. A million people have watched: rumble.com/v15xkey-nicoll… Here's the trailer. *This* is how disinformation spreads, and by whom:

Podcast episode of the week:

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See you next Friday for the next edition of Top Five Friday. I’ll save you time by providing a recap of five important news stories from the week, along with a top tweet, podcast episode and video.

But before then I will have news on how the nation’s largest medical group mutilated the body of an adolescent girl who came to them for help with her gender dysphoria condition. Stay tuned for the Chloe Cole story.