Society & Culture

“This applies to much of China’s biggest religion, Buddhism, and its only indigenous religion, Taoism. The government has also endorsed folk religious practices that it once deemed superstitious, subsidizing pilgrimages and temples.” - CFR

“The threat to religious liberty remains and has indeed expanded, but a new one has also emerged: the temptation to combat this by fusing Christianity with worldly forms of power and worldly ways of achieving the same.” - Carl Trueman

“The states oppose EEOC guidance requiring employers to call transgendered employees by their preferred pronouns and to allow them to use facilities such as bathrooms, locker rooms and showers that align with their chosen gender.” - Baptist Press

“Why does art (real, beautiful art, not just self-expression) matter to the renewal of our culture? Why do most people who visit Princeton University’s campus think that the Gothic chapel is objectively more beautiful than the new art museum, which reminds some viewers of a portable air conditioner hanging out of a window?” - Public Discourse

Among white mainline protestants, only 31% say so; among white evangelical protestants, 76%, among those who attend church weekly, 91%. - PRRI

“This ‘ceremony of gratitude’ as it was put forth by the David Lynch Foundation, the organization behind the $3 million Quiet Time program…. was ‘deceptively marketed to public schools as non-religious,’ according to Hudgins’ attorney” - RNS

“Come and See has dubbed or subtitled The Chosen into 50 languages so far [breaking Baywatch’s record 34]. The group has plans to do the same for 550 more languages.” - Christianity Today

House Bill 2634 declares it “unlawful for any public funds to be expended to any abortion facility, or to any affiliate of such abortion facility.” - Christian Post

“Currently, 36% of Democrats say the U.S. is not providing enough aid. In contrast, just 13% of Republicans say the U.S. is not giving enough support to Ukraine, while 49% believe it is giving too much.” - Pew Research

“A Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced his marriage on social media a decade ago… reversing a judge’s earlier decision.” - RNS