Society & Culture

“Mark Hall’s new book adduces solid evidence to dispel many contemporary myths concerning religion and the American founding. Let us finally be done with false claims that the founders were deists, or that they were hostile to religion and wanted to exclude it from public life.” - Public Discourse

The 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: “On November 9, 1989, East Germans began picking at the wall with hammers, picks – even their bare hands – until the mammoth structure that had divided the city for the past 28 years lay in ruins.” - Acton

“As the chart below shows, 59 percent of adults have cohabitated, a five percent increase from 2002. This increase is likely driven by the fact that 69 percent of adults believe cohabitation is acceptable, even when marriage is not in the plan.” - Intellectual Takeout

“At a Council of Bishops meeting on November 6, the five active Western Jurisdiction bishops announced a Safe Harbor Declaration for LGBTQ clergy.

The national director of Priests for Life and president of the National Pro-Life Religious Council: Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale “led the ‘Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights’ (now the ‘Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice’), which actually provides rites of blessing for parents about to kill their children, and for the facilities in which the blood is shed.” -

“A large newspaper can easily control their own writers and contributors. So, too, can a cable news channel or a network. But there is no practical way that a social media platform can exercise meaningful supervision over the material that billions of people could potentially share.” - Acton

“First Amendment issues for creative professionals are not going anywhere. The Supreme Court should provide clarity soon and, in fact, is perfectly situated to do so right now.” - Washington Examiner

“Senators Jacky Rosen and James Lankford, who describe themselves as ‘a practicing Jewish Democrat from Nevada and a devoted Christian Republican from Oklahoma,’ are spearheading a new effort to fight an old problem: anti-Semitism in America.” - RNS