Society & Culture

An objecting Democrat prevented Sen. Ben Sasse’s unanimous consent effort Monday night. But “Sasse’s effort to gain passage of his bill is not dead. He also has initiated the process to bring his bill to the Senate floor for a roll-call vote.” - BPNews

“We have always assumed that when we give money to churches and ministries we will receive a tax receipt, but those days may soon be over for organizations that will not bow before one of society’s sacred cows.” - On Living in a Post-Christian Context

“The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (hereafter Born-Alive Act) is a bill, first submitted in 2017 and recently reintroduced by several Republican senators, that would protect infants born after a botched abortion.” - TGC

“The emerging Millennial interest in ‘justice’ creates a fascinating dynamic for close observers of American culture. Moral relativism, the deconstruction of all objective-truth claims, was sold as the inevitable future just a generation ago. Not only has relativism failed to conquer our cultural landscape.

“The show is going to be a combination of scripted television interspersed with interviews from major scholars and members of Christianity. These are said to include such individuals as Joel Osteen, Asbury Theological Seminary New Testament professor Ben Witherington III, and the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church Michael Curry.” - World Religion News

“The weighted mean termination rate was 67% (range: 61%-93%) among seven population-based studies, 85% (range: 60%-90%) among nine hospital-based studies, and 50% (range: 0%-100%) among eight anomaly-based studies.” - Daily Wire

“The first four states to legalize marijuana for recreational use were Colorado and Washington in 2014 and Alaska and Oregon in 2015. ….Last year, they had almost 620 murders and 38,000 aggravated assaults—an increase of 37 percent for murders and 25 percent for aggravated assaults, far greater than the national increase.” - Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

Islam and North America: Loving Our Muslim Neighbors, published by B&H Academic in 2018, aims “to lower fear and engage people in conversations with Muslims.” - BPNews

“Planned Parenthood even says that the undocumented ‘have the right to live.’ I totally agree with this sentiment. All people have the right to live. ….But there is, you might say, a different southern border that is quite often protected by violent means.” - Matt Walsh