Top PC(USA) News of the Week: Indiana flooding, funding model, AI and Christian Nationalism

Week of August 31-September 4, 2026

Central Indiana flooding draws neighborly response from PC(USA) Fellow Hoosiers and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance are assisting with recovery

Funding Model Development Team offers thanks for valuable research and willing presbyteries Co-Moderators discuss the team’s work to date and what remains leading up to GA228

Ancestral vs. artificial intelligence AI Church Summit highlights Indigenous nations taking action against data centers

Can AI bear the Imago Dei? Summit explores moral responses to artificial intelligence and secular movements to preserve human dignity

Preaching in the midst of Christian nationalism Or, as Dr. Heath Carter of Princeton Seminary calls it, ‘hardline Christian extremism’

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