Society & Culture

“Bevin’s ceremonial signing of the heartbeat abortion ban came as another Kentucky abortion law, one that requires abortion clinics to have a written agreement with a hospital to transfer any patient with a medical emergency, is being challenged in the courts.” - Christian Post

“The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Aug. 12 in the case of Blaine Adamson, owner of Hands On Originals apparel company, who will defend his decision to refuse to print T-shirts for a 2012 gay pride festival.” - BPNews

“The economy is a system through which we exchange value and make a contribution that benefits both ourselves and others. Accordingly, it would be tempting to arrive at some judgment of our own value as a person based on the rewards that arise through our economic participation. Of course, that isn’t true or even mostly true.” - Acton

“A recent poll in the United Kingdom revealed that 89%—nearly 9 in 10—of young people, aged 16 to 29, ‘believe that their lives have no meaning or purpose.’ This saddening statistic is explained with a corresponding statistic shared in the same article—only 1% of this age group identifies as belonging to the Church of England…. In England, such attendance is down to less than 5%.” - AiG

“C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man is a collection of lectures he delivered out of concern for how the British education system, which was just one presentment of a larger societal disease, was inculcating subjectivity and ‘values’ unmoored from any objective notion of value, order, and virtue.

“According to recent surveys from both Gallup and Pew Research, more Americans than before have a negative opinion of church.” - Facts & Trends

“… by using presidential rhetoric more to praise cooperators than to slay perceived enemies, the next Oval Office inhabitant should re-inspire a sense of shared identity and common purpose.” - Washington Examiner

“Survivors and their families crowded Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum, once the shelter’s administration building, and wandered the Fort Ontario State Historic Site. More than 200 people attended a memorial under heightened security.” - RNS

“Buddhism is the most trusted religion in New Zealand, while Evangelical Christians take the bottom spot, a new survey says.” - NZ Herald