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Chick-fil-A is drawing a line on artificial intelligence. CEO Andrew Cathy told CNBC that while the chicken chain is exploring AI, it won't adopt AI voice ordering at its restaurants, opting instead for a "human plus" approach. "We really want that hospitality to be human to human," Cathy said. "We're not going to substitute that interaction with technology." A company representative wouldn't say whether that stance is permanent. The move contrasts with McDonald's, which last month unveiled ArchIQ, an AI system powering its drive-thru voice assistant, Archy. McDonald's global chief information officer Brian Rice says Archy takes orders with self-reported accuracy above 90 percent and "will free at least 50 labor hours per week." Chick-fil-A recently slipped to second behind Jersey Mike's in a major customer satisfaction index after 11 years on top.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/chick-fil-a-ceo-says-no-to-ai-voice-ordering.html
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Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a Catholic charity volunteer, has pleaded not guilty to five new charges for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham, England. The judge allowed prosecutors to replace her original December 2025 charge, which he said was "not properly drafted." She is accused of breaching the Public Order Act 2023, which bans "influencing" within 150 meters of abortion clinics. "Standing silently and holding certain beliefs in a public space should never be a crime," Vaughan-Spruce said. Her lawyers call the prosecution an "abuse of process." Judge Tan Ikram said "standing is not a crime" but that the question is whether she intended to influence others. Vaughan-Spruce previously received £13,000 from police after a wrongful arrest. Her trial is set for January 2027.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/can-a-uk-woman-silently-pray-outside-of-an-abortion-clinic.html
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Thirty-seven Maryland churches trying to leave the United Methodist Church have lost another round in court. A three-judge panel of the Appellate Court of Maryland unanimously ruled against the congregations, which argued that the Baltimore-Washington Conference unfairly charged departing churches 50 percent of their assessed property value. Judge Douglas Nazarian wrote that resolving the claims "would require a trial court to examine the UMC's religious doctrine" in a manner "prohibited by the First Amendment," leaving the denomination's internal bodies as the only authority. Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling said she was "heartened that the trust clause," which holds local church property in trust for the denomination, "has been upheld." The ruling affirms a 2024 decision by Judge Michael Malone. The dispute stems from the denomination's long divide over LGBT policy, which saw about 7,500 churches depart between 2019 and 2023.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/ruling-against-maryland-churches-trying-to-leave-umc-upheld.html
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Country star and actress Jana Kramer is opening up about the faith that carried her through her 2021 divorce. "I've always been a believer. I just didn't really accept Him, like, fully there until after my divorce because I was just like at my most alone," Kramer told The Christian Post. She was later baptized, and now draws on that journey in "The One," a faith-based Christmas drama opening in theaters November 5th. Kramer plays a grieving mother whose surviving twin daughter wrestles with God. The film, starring Martin Sheen, follows Hawk, a teen who has aged out of foster care. Kramer says the movie embraces hard questions, noting, "My pastor always says, keep asking questions because that's how your faith grows."
https://www.christianpost.com/news/jana-kramer-stars-in-faith-filled-christmas-film-the-one.html
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Veteran Hispanic broadcaster Myrka Dellanos says standing by her Christian faith has come at a steep professional price. At the Media Music Marketing Summit 2026 in Miami, the former Univision "Primer Impacto" host warned of a crisis of objectivity in secular newsrooms, insisting, "A news channel is not supposed to have an editorial line." Dellanos said that during COVID-19 coverage, executives pushed a single narrative, refused to air doctors who questioned vaccines, and rewrote her scripts. She called it "political propaganda." She recalled a news president asking whether she would talk about God on air. Defying such restrictions, she said, "cost me my job" in both television and radio, adding, "God opens the doors He wants." Dellanos now hosts devotionals on YouTube, and her book, "Where Are You, God?", arrives in November.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/myrka-dellanos-on-the-price-of-speaking-about-god-in-the-media.html
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Ohio megachurch pastor Gary Keesee Sr. is denying he knew his son allegedly sexually abused young girls. Testifying Monday as the lone defense witness at the bench trial of his son, Gary Thomas "Tom" Keesee Jr., the Faith Life Church co-founder told the Knox County court, "Thirty-one years as a pastor, I know of no one who has ever been sexually abused in my church." But two of his other children contradicted him. Former executive pastor Tim Keesee said he'd had "previous conversations with Tom and our parents" about the abuse, and sister Polly Patten testified that all the siblings knew before 2025. Keesee Jr., accused of abusing four girls between 2001 and 2012, beginning when he was 12, has pleaded not guilty. Judge Richard Wetzel is expected to rule November 6.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/gary-keesee-sr-denies-knowing-about-sons-alleged-sexual-assault.html
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Pro-life activists have knocked on three million doors in battleground states ahead of November's midterm elections. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and its partner, Women Speak Out PAC, say student canvassers from more than 100 colleges made 1.4 million of those visits across eight swing states, including Wisconsin, Georgia and Michigan. SBA President Marjorie Dannenfelser said, "The Democrats are no longer the party of safe, legal and rare," adding that canvassers aim to make "their abortion extremism" cost the Left on Election Day. The group plans to spend $80 million and reach 10.5 million voters. Meanwhile, a House Democratic working group has urged Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to pass the Women's Health Protection Act within 100 hours if Democrats retake Congress. Democrats currently lead the generic ballot by nearly eight points.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/pro-lifers-visit-millions-of-homes-in-battleground-states.html