Society & Culture

“ ‘Brain rot’ was Oxford’s word of the year in 2024, defined as ‘the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.’” - TGC

“…only about 16 percent of ‘nones’ ever considered themselves ‘born again.’ That means that nearly 84 percent of ‘nones’ are not ‘exvangelicals’or ‘deconstructed’ Christians. They were unbelievers all along.” - MinistryWatch

“No country in the world has gone as far as Canada in enabling people to die if they want to. And a lot of Canadians want to.” - RNS

“As a Christian working in the Bitcoin industry, I regularly field responses from Christians trying to wrap their heads around something that, for many, seems to be much ado about nothing.” - IFWE

“Last year, Utah lawmakers passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act….But that law is being put to the test in the courts by an unexpected group” - NPR Phoenix

“Backed by attorneys with Advocates for Faith & Freedom…. The plaintiffs contend that SB 277 unfairly targets their religious beliefs while permitting numerous secular exemptions, forcing them to choose between their faith and their children’s access to education.” - CPost

“The percentage of U.S. adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen to 54%, the lowest by one percentage point in Gallup’s nearly 90-year trend.” - Gallup

“Millennial Christians and their generational peers are in the process of becoming stewards of the largest amount of wealth that has ever passed from one generation to the next. Roughly $124 trillion will shift from the current generation to the next as the Great Wealth Transfer transpires.” - MinistryWatch

“In an Aug. 8 letter, the Secular Coalition for America and 18 allied organizations urged the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to rescind its new guidelines for religious expression in government workplaces.” - RNS

“Social conservatives and techno-libertarians are at odds over the purpose of innovation” - World