Society & Culture

“65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular,’ now stands at 26%, up from 17% in 2009.” - Pew

“What Barr describes is a long-term shift from an understanding that a robust civil society, including religious institutions, could promote healthy norms such as sobriety and self-discipline to a belief that government could be relied upon for rehabilitation, the term emphasized by the Kennedy administration when it first authorized federal grants for social services.” - National Review

“During her presentation Lee highlighted the world’s first ever human-monkey hybrid that was grown in a laboratory in China, CRISPR gene editing technology, and the research done on ‘humanized mice,’ which utilizes tissue obtained from aborted human fetuses.” - Christian Post

“To the extent that flourishing economies burst forth from fertile soil, it’s worth asking whether economic experiments like these can aid us in understanding how soil that is currently infertile might be enriched. But we should also ask whether some of our current efforts are poisonous rather than enriching.” - Acton

“U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor, an appointee of President George W. Bush, vacated a 2016 Obamacare mandate that critics feared could have forced faith-based doctors out of work if they refused to perform gender-transition procedures or abortions on patients referred to them.” - Christian Post

“From that day on, the lesson has been branded on my heart: freedom of religion and conscience is a precious, foundational, and indispensable right, and we must never take it for granted.” - Os Guinness

“For Acton, there are two types of nationality: the one of 1688, the other of 1789, i.e., English or French nationalism…. On the path to this French greatness, the centralized power had the legitimacy to get rid of everything that stood in its way.” - Acton Institute

“Goeglein says his time in Washington hasn’t made him cynical. In fact, as you’ll hear, it’s made him hopeful. But it’s a hope underpinned by the hope of the Gospel, and a belief that Christians can and will engage the current culture and not flee from it. These are ideas he explains in his new book “American Restoration: How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice Can Heal Our Nation.” - BreakPoint

“Earnestness is the demeanor that corresponds to the weight of the subject matter of preaching. The opposite of earnest is not joyful but trivial, flippant, frivolous, chipper.” - John Piper