Society & Culture

“About 18 million Bibles have been sold this year, part of a five-year boom in Bible sales.” - RNS

“There was… a then-newly emergent group on the right towards which Tocqueville adopted a position of polite but unambiguous opposition. If we were to ascribe these individuals a contemporary label, ‘altright’ or even ‘groyper’ would perhaps be the most apt. For like these contemporary far-rightists, such thinkers embraced a highly racialized view of the world.” - L&L

“…the percentage of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily lives has fallen from 66% in 2015 to 49% today. This 17-point decline ranks among the largest declines in religiosity Gallup has recorded in any country over a 10-year period since 2007.” - CPost

“At issue in Defending Education is whether Ohio’s fourth-largest school district could discipline students for purposefully using what are sometimes known as ‘biological pronouns’ rather than what are sometimes known as ‘preferred pronouns’ when referring to transgender or nonbinary classmates.” - L&L

“The proposal would also go further than any other U.S. state. Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison. It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting.” - Baptist Press

“Despite our current cultural and political climate, it’s also true that we have faced significant division before and emerged intact on the other side. Without oversimplifying our unique challenges in the present, we can learn a great deal from the man who led our nation through the turbulent events of the Civil War.” - Providence

“They all share this common idea that in order to defeat the Left, conservatives must join forces with people like Carlson, Owens, Fuentes, and Tate. Conservatives who refuse to do so are accused of causing division.” - CPost

“Another good source of information about what the Democratic Socialists of America believe is the DSA Political Platform put together in 2021. It’s worth reading in its entirety, but here are some quotations from the document” - Gene Veith

“The High Court declined Nov. 10 to hear an appeal in Miller v. Davis, in which former Rowan County, Ky., clerk Kim Davis was ordered to pay more than $360,000, including attorney fees, to a same-sex couple for whom she refused to issue a marriage license in 2015.” - Baptist Press

“ ‘Culturally, I’m just not from a world where people are attacked by demons,’ Carlson told Kelly, who noted it is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss the demonic in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting and Charlie Kirk’s assassination.” - CPost