“Last year saw confidence in organized religion or the church rebound slightly, jumping from 32% in 2024 to 36% in 2025. This year, however, trust levels fell back down to 33%, only two points above the all-time low.” - Lifeway
“…has the strong alliance between Christians and Donald Trump actually pushed some people out of church? We now have data to answer this question with a great deal of specificity among those who would be the future of the church” - Ryan Burge
“Legally, though, embryos in the U.S. generally are not adopted, because states do not classify them as children under adoption law. Instead, they are often transferred by contract as personal property.” - The Conversation
“Inanity isn’t confined to one side of the political aisle. Tuesday’s congressional hearing, where Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan defended the Supreme Court’s budget request for additional security, made that clear.” - CPost
“The group is called the Society of St. Pius X, or SSPX. It has spent decades claiming to defend the true Catholic tradition against a church it sees as too modern, too open, too willing to change…. SSPX triggered excommunications and pushed its whole society into schism.” - RNS
“Why Postliberalism Failed, by James M. Patterson and Thomas D. Howes, enters that debate with an ambitious claim. Contemporary postliberalism, they argue, is neither novel nor untested. It is best understood as the latest expression of an older political tradition whose historical record is considerably less attractive than many of its advocates acknowledge.” - Acton
“Americans’ average confidence in institutions has been trending downward since 1979…. Confidence finally showed significant improvement in 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic…. However, average confidence quickly reverted and sunk further to 27% in 2022.” - Gallup
“Vitalism is the age-old idea that living things possess a vital force – some fundamental element that generally does not exist in non-life…..vitalism is making a comeback, and this time, in the work of those committed to a Darwinian framework.” - ID the Future
“U.S. adults under 30 express much more favorable views of the Palestinian people (58%) than of the Israeli people (32%)…. Republicans under 30 see both groups similarly – a sharp reversal from a few years ago, when they were much more likely to favor Israelis.” -Pew
“I believe that conservatism cannot save itself…. But if conservatism is going to be worth anything, it must bow the knee to Christ. It must repent and be born again.” - Christ Over All
