Society & Culture

“As always, I write from the vantage point of an American who subscribes to The Gospel Coalition’s confessional statement. Your list will likely differ. But only God knows what’s in store for us in 2026.” - TGC

“LDS church leaders have said it is merely a ‘narrative’ that more young adults are leaving the faith. But in the US at least, it’s a narrative driven by data.” - RNS

“The shares of U.S. adults who identify with Christianity, with another religion, or with no religion have all remained fairly stable in the Center’s latest polling.” - Pew

“In 2022, goblin mode was the Word of the Year. It captured a cultural embrace of laziness, a retreat from discipline and ambition… In 2023, rizz emerged, reflecting performative charisma—identity as performance… In 2024, brain rot…. Then came 2025, and the language of reality collapse became even more precise. The winner, rage bait” - Breakpoint

“A majority (53%) of self-identified Christians agree that ‘A person who is generally good, or does enough good things for others, will earn a place in Heaven.’ A majority of Catholics (73%) believe that doing ‘good things’ is enough to secure a place in Heaven. Less than half of Evangelicals (43%)… said the same.” - CPost

“When the young and activist militants on the disaffected Right reduce Winston Churchill to the status of a dangerous forerunner of neoconservative foreign policy, or see in Ronald Reagan nothing but a sterile libertarianism—ignoring his courage and determination to defeat the scourge of communist totalitarianism, and his eloquent appeals to faith, community, and patriotic devotion to country—or facilely dismiss the pugnacious and brilliant William F. Buckley, Jr.

“…conservatives also need to be able to say: It is despicable to call human beings ‘garbage.’ A cabinet secretary also shouldn’t be calling a governor an ‘idiot’ at a televised cabinet meeting. And I’d leave Kristi Noem’s comment about Tim Walz alone, if Trump hadn’t previously (Thursday, defending it on Sunday) insisted Walz is ‘retarded.’ We don’t talk about people like that.” - National Review

“Religious faith is ‘fragmenting’ in the UK as more than one in ten people who abandon Christianity in Britain take up paganism, wicca or another form of ‘spiritualism,’ according to the report.” - The Times

“The West Virginia Board of Education on Tuesday reinstated a school vaccination mandate after the state Supreme Court paused a lower court’s ruling that allowed parents to cite religious beliefs to opt out of shots required for their children to attend classes.” - AP

“By prospectively applying a stricter nondelegation principle, the Court can promote constitutionalism while respecting reliance interests.” - L&L