American Culture

“To learn more about the specific types of counseling Americans are seeking out, MidAmerica Nazarene University recently performed a study where they looked at and analyzed Google search data—and the results are surprising.” CToday

“During my years caring for patients, the most common pathology I saw was not heart disease or diabetes; it was loneliness” Governing

Pew Research: Beliefs about the nature of God

“The most religious state? Mississippi… According to the poll, 59% of Mississippi’s residents report being ‘Very religious,’ meaning that ‘religion is important to them, and they attend religious services weekly or almost weekly.’ And the least religious state?

“In college, when we studied Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, I realized my father was the disciple of a rather ancient set of values. He was a gentleman: someone who still practiced the art of manners, and as such, he was both inheritor and promulgator of the classical conservative tradition.” American Conservative

Christianity In A Polarized America

“If ‘exclusivism’ is the great enemy, it follows that Christianity is most admirable when it abandons its particular doctrinal and historical character, reducing itself to a series of vague, humanistic platitudes that you might hear from Oprah.” Intellectual Takeout

New Startling Study Reveals Schism on How Americans View Sin

“Americans who identify as agnostic or ‘nothing in particular’ are four times more likely to change their religious affiliation than Protestants or Catholics.” CToday

“I personally reject capitalized divine pronouns, and encourage other writers to do the same. I find the caps practice silly, inconsistent, and odious.” CrippleGate