Society & Culture

“Currently, in Massachusetts, abortion is legal until the age of fetal viability…. This new legislation, known as the “Roe Act,” would extend abortion access past 24 weeks gestation. The bill defines “health” very broadly” - Faithwire

“Both sides of the “Christian America” debate employ the same strategy: posit a world in which everyone is either a Christian or a deist, show the American founders weren’t in your opponent’s camp, and then claim, as a result, that they must’ve been in yours.” - TGC

“Anti-Semitic attacks are increasing at an alarming rate in the New York area, and NBC New York seems to think Hasidic and Orthodox Jews have somehow created this problem by … living there.” - W. Post

“One result: The New York Times just last month (Dec. 13) could blandly assert the fake history consensus that ‘in the 17th and 18th centuries, abortion was legal under common law’ through the first 16 weeks and ‘not considered immoral or murderous.’ …We need to challenge such falsehoods” - Marvin Olasky

“Kass, quoting Irving Kristol, notes that our society has produced ‘a world prosperous beyond all previous imaginings,’ but ‘this world, with every passing decade, has become ever more spiritually impoverished. That war on poverty is the great unfinished task before us.’” - The Public Discourse

“Benedict’s concerns prefigured the themes of Religion News Service’s coverage for the rest of the 2010s. A look back at the stories that drove religion news in the past 10 years” - RNS

“An ‘ethical vegan’ who claims he was sacked because of his views on animal products is bringing a landmark legal action to prove his beliefs should be protected in law.” - Sky News

“[E]very 10 years, the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) counts and maps religious congregations in the US.” - Christianity Today

“As you watch it, you’ll find yourself in a state of disbelief. This happened in America? In New York? .You… might also ask yourself a different question. Why haven’t I heard more about this?” - David French

“At the end of every year, the Associated Press polls its reporters and editors to determine the year’s top stories. To help us in looking back, here, in order, are the AP’s top stories of 2019” - Gene Veith