“This report explores how American evangelical Christians might contribute to healing political and cultural divides in America.”
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ERLC has released the report, Faith and Healthy Democracy. - Russell Moore announcement - The report introduction
House Democrats Use SPLC 'Hate Groups' List to Argue Conservative Non-Profits Should Lose Tax-Exempt Status
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“According to Faithwire, ‘hate groups’ identified were mainly socially conservative organizations, such as the Family Research Council, the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the American Family Association.” - Christian Headlines
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“Are twentysomethings really such a ‘lost generation?’ Clydesdale and Graces-Foley give us reasons to be much more hopeful”
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“The Twentysomething Soul widens the scope of this discussion with the authors’ original research, which draws from hundreds of interviews and thousands of surveys of twentysomethings across the nation. …Clydesdale and Garces-Foley distill their work into seven major claims.” - Christianity Today
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The Saddest Story I’ve Read in a Good While: Kids See through Adults’ Blindness to Natural Law
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“As children, they didn’t think to challenge the new adult rules, the new adult ideas of justice. Instead, they found a way around this difficulty that the grown-ups had introduced into their lives. It was a quiet plea to be left alone.” - Mark Ward
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Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment
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“As Congress moves toward a possible formal impeachment of President Donald Trump, they should consider words spoken at the Constitutional Convention, when the Founders explained that impeachment was intended to have many important purposes, not just removing a president from office.” - The Conversation
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9th U.S. Town Becomes ‘Sanctuary City for the Unborn’
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“The city council of another Texas city voted this week to become a sanctuary city for the unborn, making it the sixth in the state and the ninth nationwide this year to pass such a declaration.” - Christian Headlines
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LifeWay research: evangelicals' views on civility and respect in public discourse
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“Two in 3 Americans with evangelical beliefs (66 percent) believe being civil in political conversations is productive, with 22 percent dissenting and 12 percent not sure…While 58 percent say they tend to believe those who disagree with them have good motivations, 54 percent say when they disagree with someone politically, the other person tends to take it as a personal attack.” - BPNews
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“Politics and grievance are the cheap substitutes for cultivating young minds when meaning and theology have left the building”
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“Despair is what results, and it’s what I heard beneath my neighbor’s lament. Such despair and empty moral imperatives also are on display in global protests over climate change.” - WORLD
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“Millions of Americans have abandoned religion, only to re-create it everywhere they look”
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“Although belief in God is no panacea for these problems, religion is more than a theism. It is a bundle: a theory of the world, a community, a social identity, a means of finding peace and purpose, and a weekly routine.
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