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Santi Elijah Holley

Santi Elijah Holley is an award-winning journalist and author of An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created.

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Religion Dispatches

Are You There, GodBot? It’s Me, Santi

This article includes engagement with a ChatGPT bot claiming to be Jesus (among other biblical figures). With due respect to the author: given its devastating and demonstrably racialized environmental…
Santi Elijah Holley
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screenshot from “Chat with jesus"
Religion Dispatches

'What Feeds Your Soul'

D’Angelo’s Sacred Secular Ministry
In 1992, an 18-year-old preacher’s son sat at an upright piano before the congregation of Refuge Assembly of Yahweh—a Pentecostal church outside Richmond, his family’s church.
Santi Elijah Holley
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D’Angelo at piano lit by spotlights (Brixton)