“Becket’s 2023 Religious Freedom Index: American Perspectives on the First Amendment, Fifth Edition (Index) examined Americans’ perspectives on ongoing court cases, parental rights, and how the next generation sees the role of faith in America.” - Daily Citizen
“Our findings reveal that music is not merely a source of entertainment or aesthetic pleasure; it is also a powerful medium that reflects and shapes our moral sensibilities” - Phys.org
“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
“Using his normal means of research, the pastor of Madison Baptist Church…had trouble narrowing down the ways the 12 apostles died. So he opened ChatGPT and asked the artificial intelligence (AI) application.” - Lifeway
“Without controls, people with premarital partners are 161% more likely to dissolve their marriages compared to people who tie the knot as virgins… After including the laundry list of covariates shown in the table, the odds of divorce remain 151% higher” - IFS
“As American wives increasingly outearn their husbands, many couples experience what relationship coach Suzanne Venker calls ‘role-reversal stress.’ This stress can be deleterious for their emotional and sexual lives, three studies published in the American Sociological Review suggest” - IFS
Some excerpts… Think “God learns and adapts to different circumstances”: U.S. Adults 51%, Evangelicals 48%. Think “Everyone is born innocent in the eyes of God”: U.S. Adults 71%, Evangelicals 65%. - Ligonier Article, and The Survey
Study results: “husbands with higher income tended to have more children, while wives with higher income tended to have fewer children.” - IFS
“we found weak (mostly nonsignificant) evidence that capstone marriages are more stable than cornerstone marriages. In other words, waiting to marry was linked to slightly more marital stability. However, there is new research that complicates that story.” - C.Today
“Not only is religion growing overall, but Christian specifically is growing. With a 1.17 percent growth rate, almost 2.56 billion people will identify as a Christian by the middle of 2022. By 2050, that number will top 3.33 billion.” - C.Index
