Jimmy Carter rid the presidency of lies. His fellow evangelicals? Not so much. (RNS) — One of the many paradoxes surrounding Carter’s presidency is that he was unable to fend off the deception of fellow evangelicals, including Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham. The post Jimmy Carter rid the presidency of lies. His fellow evangelicals? Not so much. appeared first on RNS.

Jimmy Carter, beloved Sunday school teacher, ex-president, dead at 100 (RNS) — Carter was the only U.S. president to have taught Sunday school while in office, according to the White House Historical Association. The post Jimmy Carter, beloved Sunday school teacher, ex-president, dead at 100 appeared first on RNS.

We Should Have Listened To Jimmy Carter President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. died on Sunday, December 29, 2024 at his home in Plains, Georgia, at 100 years old. Carter will be remembered as a consummate humanitarian and Nobel Prize winning statesman who spent his retirement years building houses with Habitat for Humanity and all but eradicating a truly… Read more…

Democracy Defying Gravity: WICKED as Movie and Metaphor Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush discusses “Wicked,” the movie musical, as a metaphor for the challenges we’ll face in 2025, with superfan and Interfaith Alliance Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons. The post Democracy Defying Gravity: WICKED as Movie and Metaphor appeared first on RNS.

Missing Malaysia Flight Goes Ham And A NASA Probe Goes Sunning In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared without a trace over a decade ago. Malaysia’s government announced last week that it will resume its search efforts for the missing airliner. Maritime robotics company Ocean Infinity signed an 18-month deal to lead the effort and will receive $70 million if they can find the… Read more…

Body Kits And Our Favorite Cybertruck Fails In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup Hertz bought a bunch of Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet and quickly realized that Tesla depreciation would be extra bad at scale. In an aggressive effort to sell off its remaining Tesla inventory, the rental company is sending extra cheap buyout options to rental customers. If you like your rental, Hertz will sell… Read more…

Freaky Nio Hatchback And The Most Beautiful Car Color On Sale Today In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup We all know most car colors are simply dreadful. For the most part, they’re a faded pastel of blacks, whites, grays and silvers. Sometimes, though, an automaker will come out with a color that is so lovely I’ve got to give it a shoutout. That’s exactly what Lexus did with its Copper Crest color that debuted on the… Read more…

2024 Photos of the Year (RNS) — This week’s gallery looks back at some of the best photographs from 2024. The post 2024 Photos of the Year appeared first on RNS.

The top 10 religion stories of 2024: What’s old is news again (RNS) — The developments in faith, politics and culture that defined 2024 for us at RNS. The post The top 10 religion stories of 2024: What’s old is news again appeared first on RNS.

This Is The Perfect Car And Yes, It Is A Chevy Cruze This may sound unbelievable now but, once upon a time, car makers took chances on small cars. When they didn’t make a butt-load of money they stopped pretty quickly, but the few customers who could appreciate something a little different were able to purchase a small taste of joy. One such car is on sale right now in… Read more…

New Zealand’s 1,500-HP Hypercar Brings F1 Speed To Anybody With The Money Low, light, minimalist and sinister as all hell, the Rodin FZero is an upcoming turbocharged V10 track-focused (though allegedly street-legal) hypercar that beats F1 around just about any track. Rodin does this by completely throwing out the F1 rulebook and starting from a clean sheet of paper. With a closed cockpit,… Read more…

Aston Martin Might Remove The Valkyrie Race Car’s Mufflers To Let That V12 Really Sing: Report Aston Martin and The Heart of Racing team went into pre-season testing cautiously optimistic. After finding its new Valkyrie Hypercar racer was several seconds off the pace, it is decided that the car won’t make its debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January while the team looks for a solution. Part of that solution… Read more…

Tesla’s Latest Update Reportedly Cripples Some Cybertrucks It’s been a terrible year for the Tesla Cybertruck and it doesn’t exactly sound like the kinks have all worked themselves out yet. The latest update reportedly bricked some Cybertrucks, leaving owners scrambling to figure out which of their other six-figure cars they’ll be forced to drive now that their rides are… Read more…

Blood Could Be Key Ingredient For Concrete On Mars It’s conceivable that a future American President will address the nation from the Oval Office on the day NASA successfully lands astronauts on Mars. They will likely praise the blood, sweat and tears it took to travel 140 million miles to the Martian surface. However, those same bodily fluids could be vital building… Read more…

Portland Demands Something Be Done After Car Crashes Into House For 30th Time, Starts Gas Fire As part of our belief that hitting people with your cars is bad, Jalopnik maintains that hitting houses with your cars is also bad. People live in houses, and you should not hit them with your cars. Unfortunately for apartment residents in one Portland, Oregon building, someone didn’t get that memo and crashed into… Read more…

Customs Agents Seize $1.4 Million In Counterfeit Vehicle Inspection Stickers Some car owners are willing to go to extreme lengths to avoid the time and monetary cost of having their vehicles pass an annual state inspection, including buying fake stickers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 22,000 counterfeit Pennsylvania vehicle inspection stickers in two recent shipments from… Read more…

Cybertruck Owner DIYs A $3,000 Repair For $25 Denting your car sucks. It happens to everyone at some point or another, and it’s often more of an annoyance than a real pain — there are plenty of hacks for popping out your own dents. Yet, when a Cybertruck owner showed up to the service center with a dented door, Tesla wanted to charge $3,000 for the fix. The owner… Read more…

At $4,750, Does This 2003 Chevy Impala Stand A Sporting Chance? ‘SPORT’ is emblazoned on each rear flank of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Impala, despite the model’s traditionally non-sporting nature. Should we be good sports and overlook the debatable decals in light of the asking price? Read more…

Traffic Jams: Petey – ‘Don’t Tell The Boys Yeah, I’ve got resolutions, but the New Year’s kind? Nah. That’s just a human construct of time, man. My resolutions are ongoing, like they came straight out of the United Nations. They’ll keep going forever. Read more…

The top 5 Vatican stories from 2024 (RNS) — This was the year Francis tried to hold the tension between progressives and conservatives in the church. The post The top 5 Vatican stories from 2024 appeared first on RNS.