The Washington Post – Will Vladimir Putin revive American evangelicals’ faith that Jesus is coming soon? He just might. Over the past 150 years, evangelicals have used global chaos to propel their movement forward. Lining up world events with ancient biblical prophecies, they have offered adherents secret knowledge of the past, the present and the future. Evangelicals know how to make their beliefs relevant to the day’s headlines in a way that no other American religious group has matched.
The Pakistan Observer – “I didn’t believe the clinical lore that it would only occur in people in their 50s,” says study author Brian Sharpless, PhD, of Washington State University. “That didn’t make a lot of biological sense to me.” After conducting a review of the scientific literature on exploding head syndrome in the journal Sleep Medicine Reviews, Dr. Sharpless decided that more research was required to fully understand the rare condition.