Society & Culture

“Recently, a number of prominent tech executives, including Elon Musk, signed an open letter urging a 6-month pause on all AI research.” - Breakpoint

“Ahead of the 2016 primaries, Iowa evangelicals would not support Donald Trump in his run for president due to issues they had with his character….As the former president campaigns for 2024, many in this powerful GOP base have flipped their 2016 views.” - IPR

“Tennessee lawmakers have introduced a list of ‘divisive concepts,’ which, under a law passed last year, are prohibited from being taught on college campuses. …Especially at the college level, we need more discussion and serious debate of ideas, not less.” - Breakpoint

“Among younger adults, for every one person who goes from religiously unaffiliated to affiliating with a religion, there are five people who switch in the opposite direction, toward no religion.” - Public Discourse

“Justice Brett Kavanaugh focused on the language in the court’s 1977 decision that said an employer would suffer an undue hardship…. That, he suggested, seems to be what happened in Groff’s small postal office when he refused to work Sundays or religious holidays.” - NPR

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“The 11th-hour settlement protects Fox executives from having to possibly testify in court about their role in the network’s airing of 2020 election lies.” - Axios

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“Southern Baptist leader Brent Leatherwood calls on the state to ‘restrain evil’ through Governor Lee’s plan to keep weapons from those deemed a threat to themselves or others.” - CToday

“ ‘It’s too heartbreaking, I think. It’s very hard,’ Worshill told Baptist Press as Israel marks Yom HaShoah beginning this evening (April 17). ‘It’s a whole side of the family that basically doesn’t exist anymore because they were killed in the camps, or killed in the resistance.’” - BPNews

“Among the groups with concerns that religious institutions are watering down or abandoning their traditional beliefs, 52% of Evangelical Christians strongly believed that this is the case. Thirty percent of Protestants, 41% of Jews, and 34% of Catholics” - CPost

“DeSantis’ net favorability among white evangelicals is +36, placing him at a slightly higher net favorability than Trump. Haley’s net favorability among this group is +20. White evangelicals are more than twice as likely to say that they have not heard of Haley (42%) than they are to say the same of DeSantis (18%).” - PRRI