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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney-Barritt are set to begin on October 12th.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said the committee should clear her nomination by October 26th,

leaving the Republican-led Senate roughly a week to confirm Barrett before the November 3rd election.

Attacks on her family and faith have already begun. Focusing on the fact that she and her

husband adopted two children from Haiti, one critic suggested without any evidence the possibility

that her kids were scooped up by ultra-religious Americans or Americans who weren't scrupulous

intermediaries and the kids were taken when there was family in Haiti. Judge Barrett and her husband

have also been likened to white colonizers for adopting black children. If past is prologue,

we can expect more character assassination attempts in the

weeks ahead. Many critics have focused on the fact that Judge Barrett is a member of a group

called People of Praise. Newsweek headlined how charismatic Catholic groups like Amy Coney Barrett's

People of Praise inspired the Handmaid's Tale. Their original headline

incorrectly claimed that people of praise directly inspired the dystopian novel. Editors were

forced to issue a retraction and change their headline, though not the reporting in the article

itself. Such guilt by association was echoed by other outlets, but has been

soundly debunked. This controversy illustrates an important point about the state of our culture

and the best way for Christians to respond. Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Peggy

Noonan explains that people of praise is part of the charismatic renewal movement that began in the 1970s, and emphasizes personal conversion and bringing forward Christ's teachings in the world.

Noonan notes, members include Protestants as well as Catholics. They are joined together intentionally,

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