Society & Culture

“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

“It is nothing short of diabolical that we would respond to such vulnerable people by making it easier for them to kill themselves. Pope Francis sees this as part of our ‘throwaway culture’ — a slouch toward discarding those whose inherent dignity is inconvenient to acknowledge and accommodate, much less embrace.” - RNS

“Major news outlets are reporting that a secretive court in China has sentenced detained Christian pastor Wang Yi to 9 years in prison for inciting subversion of the government. Yi is one of the country’s most famous Christian leaders who founded and leads a large, well-known house church in the country.” - RNS

“A spokeswoman for MedStar Mobile Healthcare, an ambulance service, told The Associated Press that two people had been shot and killed, one of them the gunman; a third person, in critical condition, suffered cardiac arrest but was revived.” - Fox

Wayne Grudem: “I prefer freedom. I agree with our Declaration of Independence that liberty is an ‘unalienable right’ that has been bestowed on us by our Creator. I’ll vote again for Trump.” - Townhall

“It wasn’t just the commercialization of Christmas that Lewis disdained. It was the trivialization of the historical event of Christ’s birth. Lewis thought the commercial racket should be detached from the remembrance of what the angels celebrated nearly 2,000 years ago.” - Christianity Today

Conservatives “aren’t shocked if some author, actor, or musician says something we find objectionable. It’s our expectation that they will. But for liberals, there’s a broad assumption that artists are going to be more or less on the same page as they are.” - Washington Examiner

“Christ’s famous admonition to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God (Mark 12:17) is widely regarded as radicalizing the Jewish conviction that the power of earthy rulers is limited by God’s divine law, a conviction that would become a crucial feature of the Western understanding of government power.” - Acton