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The End of Trust: YouTube, Lies and Videotape

By Trey Lyon

…, not the “German Department of Statistics, but Deutsche Welle, which is a newspaper in Germany that published the opinions of these cultural anthropologists. There are any number of errors regarding what has been documented as a decline in pregnancies/child births among women in the Muslim world that can be read here. Notwithstanding the fact that both Germany and France’s constitutions and letters of Parliament prohibit a political insurrection…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…dance in the general population has produced a significant increase in the number of WEINOs, White evangelicals who seldom or never attend church; and Support for Trump is strongest among White evangelicals who are not connected to churches. Let’s take each of these in turn. Myth 1: A Large and Growing Number of White Evangelical Protestants Do Not Attend Church The general assertion that church attendance has significantly declined among White ev…

It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to Discriminate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e-providers like bakeries and florists, dress-shops, hair salons, and “any number” of other businesses could claim that their services are in fact a form of constitutionally protected artistic practice. “The claim at issue here sounds as if the business can put up a sign in its window that says, ‘We sell cakes for heterosexuals only,’” Melling explained, taking ADF’s logic to its natural conclusion. “There’s an immediate consequence of that, and t…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…he great Catholic stampede of 2016 isn’t exactly what it seems. Writing in New York, Ed Kilgore notes that the PPRI poll may be an outlier, as it showed a 13-point lead for Hillary Clinton among all voters, which was among the larger post-convention leads of any poll. Also, as Kilgore points out: National Election Study numbers show that Catholics in recent elections lean more toward Democrats (e.g., showing Obama winning the Catholic vote by 14 p…

Record Numbers Voted for More Death and More Racism; Can We Really Just Come Together as a Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…get himself sworn in. The blunt message from more than half of their white American neighbors is get out – you don’t matter – we don’t need you, and you won’t replace us. And it isn’t new. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1158569576168402945 This was always Trump’s message, but many progressives were nevertheless pleased to think that Trump had somehow conned or hoodwinked 63 million people to vote for him in 2016, but that this time—after all of th…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…Other organizations raising similar objections include Concerned Women for American, Americans United for Life, and the American Center for Law and Justice. As to private employers, the proposed rule takes note of the fact that private employers are not entitled to religious exemptions under other federal laws, such as Title VII, prohibiting discrimination in employment. Based on that precedent, the administration declined to extend an exemption t…

Who Is “Sam Bacile?”

By Sarah Posner

…t. The Times of Israel says Bacile spoke from telephone with “a California number”: Speaking from a telephone with a California number, Bacile said he is Jewish and familiar with the region. Bacile said the film was produced in English and he doesn’t know who dubbed it in Arabic. The full film has not been shown yet, he said, and he said he has declined distribution offers for now. “My plan is to make a series of 200 hours” about the same subject,…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ects of Roman Catholicism as a motivation for converting. When he moved to New York City to attend The King’s College he had a difficult time finding a church that was similar to his home church in San Diego. The churches that he attended in New York, even the evangelical ones, often were a bit more structured and incorporated some liturgical elements into their services. In time, Dunn realized that these liturgical practices, which had been all b…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…ion by joining other denominations or leaving Christianity altogether. The number of priests and nuns was at an all-time low even before the recent sexual scandals, and the number of self-identified Catholics world-wide keeps declining. Many of those who remain in the Church ignore standard doctrines and believe what they want. How many Catholics disobey Church rules? About as many as the angels dancing on a pinhead. Believers know that Jesus prom…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…landscape study, it confirmed what most Protestant mainline denominations knew in practice for years: Americans aren’t going to church like they used to. Beyond that, much of the research around trends—specifically with millennials born between 1981 and 1996—reveals a much more complex American landscape. The larger takeaway in the 2014 study was that the American church was losing members—and that became the sexy cover story. Lost in the weeds wa…