The Political Puzzle of Never Attenders Are They Remaking Politics? Or Maintaining the Status Quo?
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“In 2008, 62% of never attenders were Democrats and 20% were Republicans…. in 2016, it dropped to only 31 points (56% vs 25%)…. in 2022 the gap was just 29 points (53% vs 24%)…. The Democrats are losing their advantage with never attenders.” - Ryan Burge
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Sixty Years Later, C. S. Lewis’s Voice Still Speaks
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“Years later, after I had come to Christ and was by then reading every book by C. S. Lewis I could find, I discovered that Lewis had died the same day as Kennedy.” - Randy Alcorn
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The challenges of being a religious scientist
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“22% of graduate students in science say that they believe in God and 20% describe themselves as ‘very’ or ‘moderately’ religious. These percentages are similar to what is seen among science faculty” - RNS
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The Great Evangelical Disaster: Evangelicals Conforming to the World
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“More than 150 Iowa ‘faith leaders’ have announced they are supporting Donald Trump in the state’s forthcoming caucuses…. These endorsements came days before the release of Tim Alberta’s book ‘The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.’” - Cal Thomas
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Russell Kirk’s “The Conservative Mind” for the Rising Generation
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“Seventy years after the publication of The Conservative Mind, Kirk can still speak to what he called the ‘rising generation’ — showing young people an appealing vision of conservatism, one that drinks deeply from the imaginative and humane wellspring of American and Western civilization.” - Imaginative Conservative
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Gallup: More Americans attach high importance to money
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“The current 30% who say money is extremely important is virtually unchanged from 2002, but the 49% calling it very important constitutes a significant uptick.” - Gallup
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Dear Associated Press editors: The story of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter includes lots of faith
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“When former President Jimmy Carter describes his life he almost always mentions each of these subjects — his wife, Rosalynn, their shared Christian faith, community service and the Bible.” - GetReligion
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Why terrorists aren’t freedom fighters
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“ ‘Randomness and innocence are the crucial elements in the definition [of terrorism],’ he says. ‘The critique of this kind of killing hangs especially on the idea of innocence, which is borrowed from “just war” theory.’” - BPNews
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The hijacking of ‘Christ is King’
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“the unfortunate reality is that this beautiful, biblically based truth has been hijacked by elements of the extreme religious right, often with anti-Semitic implications.” - Michael Brown
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