Society & Culture

“Drawing on responses from more than 24,000 Christian churchgoers surveyed between September 2024 and January 2025, the EPIC Attender Survey, spearheaded by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, offers the most comprehensive portrait yet of how religious life has shifted since the pandemic began in March 2020.” - MinistryWatch

“While reporting relatively low levels of attendance at Mass, almost half of US adults (47%) say they have a personal or family relationship to Catholicism, a new Pew Research Center survey finds.” - RNS

“Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, sent President Donald Trump a text message in which Huckabee expressed his confidence that Trump would hear God’s voice regarding how to handle the conflict between Israel and Iran and that God ‘spared’ Trump from being assassinated for a special purpose.” - C.Leaders

“…today, an increasing number of schools are defunding, closing, or repurposing their libraries under the banner of ‘progress’ … and under the false assumption that libraries are just rooms full of books which can be found online or stored in a cheaper or more convenient location.” - L&L

“After denying that the 1886 pro-polygamy ‘Taylor revelation’ existed, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly published it on Saturday.” - RNS

“The genre is rising in mainstream popularity.” - NPR

“Compared to the year-to-date average over the previous decade, funding for math, physics, and chemistry was down 67%; 52% for biology; and 57% for engineering. The crisis at the NSF isn’t accidental. It reflects the Trump administration’s hostility toward basic research, part of a wider assault on science.” - UnHerd

“Vance Boelter claimed to be educated at Christ for the Nations, a Bible school in Dallas, and preached in Congo in recent years.” - RNS

“Six people were killed in the Bat Yam impact, including a 60-year-old woman, a 70-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman, a 10-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl, and an 18-year-old boy. At the time of publication, seven people were still listed as missing, and hundreds were injured.” - CPost

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“Why the sudden interest? One London-based creator who has 1.2 million followers on TikTok suggests that her predominantly Gen Z followers had turned to astrology for a ‘sense of agency’ when life felt chaotic.” - Church & Culture