Society & Culture

Led Zeppelin’s most mythic song was a “slurring, sucking sonic taffy” when reversed—and some heard the devil in it

“Spearheaded by Prison Fellowship, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, National Association of Evangelicals and the Colson Center for Worldview, the Justice Declaration seeks to rally evangelicals and other Christians against mass incarceration and for alternative sentencing for criminals who don’t pose a significant threat to society.”

Evangelical Christians are under fire as an Alberta school board is demanding a Christian school stop teaching “offensive” scripture that indicts homosexuality as a sin

“Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an adoption bill into law on Thursday that allows adoption agencies receiving public funding to refuse to place children in adoptive families or foster homes that conflict with the agencies’ religious beliefs.” Jurist

“Humanity knows just two theoretical forms of organizing public interactions, says Alex Tokarev. All real socio-economic systems that have evolved through the centuries are a mix of the two opposite ideological concepts”

“Faith leaders whose politics falls to the left of center are getting more involved in politics to fight against President Trump’s policies.” NYTimes

“Reza Aslan’s angry Trump tweet did what no protesting religious group was able to do, remove him and the show from the CNN lineup” WRN

Three mainline Protestant clergy issued a statement condemning President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, saying it “violates the values and vision that are basic to Christian faith.”

Carl Trueman: As humanities curricula have come to be shaped by the psychologized politics of our therapeutic culture, so that which challenges or disturbs must be kept at a distance or discounted. Is it any surprise that educational administrators reflect this in their approach to today’s student protests?