Society & Culture

“Fifteen percent of Americans felt that the most annoying or overplayed Christmas song was either ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ (12%) … or any other song by Carey (3%). ‘Jingle Bells’ (6%), ‘Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer’ (5%)” - RNS

“This week, Barnes & Noble announced plans to open 30 new stores next year…. the move looks to be part of a larger turnaround for booksellers.” - Relevant

“The United States is the lone country out of 19 surveyed where a plurality of adults say their country’s influence has been getting weaker recently.” - Pew

“Evangelical, Orthodox, and academic sources weigh security concerns against the right to associate with historic patriarchate losing popularity and suspected of war collaboration.” - CToday

“The first book was Stephen Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism. The second was my own, The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism. Our books do not cite each other, yet it is remarkable the degree to which they speak to the same issues from opposite perspectives.” - CToday

“What follows is an apologia, an explanation and defense of my filing the lawsuit, which I know has brought considerable consternation and perhaps resentment from some” - Nicholas Meriwether

“It is censorship based on political/religious ideology. The erosion of free speech and the willingness of liberal-minded people to celebrate its demise is shocking.” - Kevin Schaal

“The Wessex Area CPS has ‘undertaken a post-case review and acknowledges that the statement was inappropriate,’ Lord Stewart of Dirleton from the Conservative Party, who is the advocate general for Scotland, was quoted as replying.” - CPost

“The book is called Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America, by a British sociologist named Stephen Bullivant. It’s not just an important book, it’s the best-written and most readable work of religious sociology that I’ve read in a very long time.” - David French

“Local leaders weigh in on the Muslim-majority nation’s new penal code and whether governments should legislate morality.” - CToday