Society & Culture

“Barrett was given the constitutional oath by Justice Clarence Thomas Monday night at an outdoor ceremony at the White House. Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the judicial oath to Barrett Tuesday (Oct. 27), the Supreme Court press information office announced Monday evening.” - BPNews

“John Piper has issued a blistering condemnation of President Donald Trump, warning Christian voters that the president’s ‘deadly behavior’ will lead the U.S. to ‘destruction of more kinds than we can imagine.’” - C.Post

“The footage appears to be taken from a 2019 interview with the Mexican broadcaster Televisa. But. .. the statement about civil unions was edited out, both when the interview was run in Mexico and when the Vatican itself released its own version.

“The real question that needs answering is, ‘At what point does a human fetus become a person.’ This may sound like an inconsequential distinction, but it is actually the crux of the matter.” - Mark Farnham

Fascism Then and Now

“A documentary that premiered at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday included Pope Francis speaking in support of legal civil unions for homosexual couples. ‘Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God….What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.’” - WORLD

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“Thirty-five years ago, New York University professor of communications Neil Postman predicted the political and social implosion we have witnessed in 2020. We must learn to dominate digital media technology, lest it dominate us. Otherwise, we may very well amuse ourselves, and our polis, to death.” - Public Discourse

“…to have this sense of either, if whoever I voted for wins, I’m exuberant, it’s like, ‘I win,’ that’s not really true. And if somebody I didn’t like wins and that means everything’s over, everything falls apart. Well, that’s not true either.” - Russel Moore (Podcast)