Society & Culture

“Truth-telling is valuable to the degree that it incriminates the out-group and is expendable to the degree that it may damage the in-group.” - World

“These were the folks that were more on the fringes to begin with,” said Cox [American Enterprise Institute]. “They didn’t need much of a push or a nudge, to just be done completely.” - RNS

“Open Doors USA is now Global Christian Relief, but there is little indication of what led to the break.” - CToday

BPNews looks at Pew’s Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 118th Congress

“ ‘Pray for Damar Hamlin’ became a national exhortation. It was everywhere. The universal urge and call to prayer keenly revealed how embedded man’s spiritual nature is within him, despite what our culture says and does to try to remove the divine from our horizon.” - World

“These five books may help fellow pastors or Sunday school teachers who are trying to faithfully navigate the Bible’s teaching on gender.” - TGC

“Nobody seriously thinks that hostile secularity is the ideal state of government, or rejects the claim that society should order us toward the truth or the good. What we cannot do, however, is wink at the authoritarian and illiberal claims about authority that are implicitly, or sometimes explicitly, made in some integralist arguments.” - L&L

“…in our day everything is political and that all of society’s structures and institutions are being made subservient to political ends. …Second, it affirms that in our society self-definition is considered unassailable so that a person’s individual defining of a word must reign over a dictionary’s.” - Challies

“Both authentic interviews were conducted before the 2020 election, and in neither case does Musk make the statements digitally attributed to him in the fake clip.” - Dispatch

“Plaintiffs have demonstrated that the State permits countless other private actors hosting secular activities to do what a house of worship may not. The houses of worship exclusion is not a neutral law of general applicability” - CPost