#SocialMedia – Persecution Live

Sep 29, 2026, 11:59 am EDT |
Joel R. McConvey

The point is that it may not be the #platforms, but the social media #business model itself, that needs #interrogating. Cans used to be made out of lead, but the lead was the problem, not the cans. Is there a version of social media that is reimagined in similar #fashion – built, so to speak, out of different material? Or are we reaching the point at which, asking of social media, “what does this do?”, we are forced to conclude that the answer is, “nothing good”? #Tobacco and #alcohol, two of the world’s most #notorious regulated products, at least have #millennia of history behind them; Meta’s brief legacy is mainly one of social discord.

One thing seems certain: large social media #platforms and #digital #regulators globally are on a #collision course. How forceful – and damaging – the impact will be to both parties remains an open question.
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By PNW Staff
September 28, 2026

Something strange is happening in America’s #spiritual landscape.

Witchcraft, tarot, #paganism and #occult #spirituality have moved out of the shadows and into the #mainstream. #SocialMedia is filled with tarot readings. #Online marketplaces sell #spells and #curses. #Hollywood increasingly presents witches as #sympathetic, #empowered #spiritual seekers, while younger Americans #experiment with practices their #grandparents would have #immediately recognized as occult.

But at the same time, something #remarkable is happening in the #opposite direction.

Some #people immersed in tarot, #NewAge spirituality and #occult practices are discovering #JesusChrist — and concluding that following Him means leaving those things behind.

Meanwhile, inside some of America’s most #progressive #churches, the #movement appears to be going the other way. Instead of allowing #Christianity to challenge the #culture, #biblical language is being reconsidered, historic sexual ethics discarded and even #traditional understandings of #God and #Jesus reimagined.

The irony is difficult to miss.

Some people outside the church are discovering that Jesus requires them to change.

Some people inside the church seem determined to change Jesus.