By Betsy Shirley
Editor in Chief, Sojourners

The song stuck in my head this week is the hit 2000s praise-and-worship song “Here I Am To Worship.” Unfortunately, the reason it’s been stuck on repeat is not altogether lovely, altogether worthy, or altogether wonderful to me.

We recently riffed on the title of the aforementioned earworm to make a headline pun about the rise of AI in Christian music. In the article, sources ranging from Christian drag artist Flamy Grant to Jars of Clay’s Stephen Mason told Sojourners that we’re seeing “basically the ‘Walmartification’ of Christian art,” as one expert put it.

Elsewhere this week, we’re offering a peek inside a posthumous collection from Rachel Held Evans and an analysis of the most alarming part of Trump’s recent State of the Union address. Plus, a surprising ally in the fight against immigrant detention, and Christian abolitionist Hannah Bowman breaks down what it would mean to actually “abolish ICE.”

Here AI Am To Worship? (by Tate Young)

Thousands are listening to AI-generated Christian music, and they may not even know it.

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What Rachel Held Evans Knew About Not Going to Church (by Rachel Held Evans and Kristen Howerton)

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ICE Must Be Abolished. Can Truth and Reconciliation Follow? (by Hannah Bowman)

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