Society & Culture

“In this short reflection, I don’t propose to address the question of whether a particular set of economic sanctions on a given country in the past or present was or is morally acceptable. Instead, I’d like to propose some key criteria by which we can assess the ethical status of a given choice to use economic sanctions.” - Acton

“Similar to how payday lending is predatory with astronomically high interest rates and short loan periods, online gambling is designed to line the pockets of the company rather than to promote the common good rooted in the dignity of all people.” - BPNews

“Lawmakers appeared largely convinced by the report, peppering the panelists with questions over the course of the hour-long briefing.” - C.Leaders

“It is easy and dangerous for Christians to get sucked into these types of political debates. Biblical wisdom and ethics do not fit into the binary formula of today’s political landscape.” - Kevin Schaal

“What the ‘facts don’t care about your feelings’ and ‘the truth matters more than how it makes you feel’ crowd often fail to appreciate is that while they’re often at pains to tell us that they’re speaking this way from a place of love, they could’ve fooled us. From where many of us sit, it kind of seems like the other thing.” - Dale Chamberlain

“Americans’ wariness about this wide arc of emergent developments runs through many of the survey’s findings.” - Pew

“having served as a public defender, she would be the only current justice who had spent any portion of her career defending citizens against the state rather than representing the state and its interests….

“Whether The Meeting House and its 19 remote sites, which are supported by the Be In Christ denomination, can recover, or at least retain, some of its former ministry will take years to assess.” - RNS

“The Hyde Amendment and other bans on federal funding of abortion survived months of Democratic attempts to eliminate them and gained enactment in an omnibus spending bill signed by President Biden Tuesday.” - C.Index

“47% of U.S. adults say single women raising children on their own is generally a bad thing for society, an increase of 7 percentage points….