"The Next Generation's impact on so many people has been extraordinary," Stewart told me. "Ranging from people saying that it became their English language education to someone who said, 'I was going to end my life, but I couldn't because I wouldn't be able to see Star Trek anymore.'" (Martin, NPR)
Read MoreTensions are flaring in suburbia as Halloween decorations cross the line from festive to nightmarish. Entire front yards are morphing into wastelands of decapitated bodies, with zombies holding bloody axes and severed pig heads. Some Halloween-lovers spend thousands of dollars on props that fill their basements or attics for the rest of the year. (Dangoor, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreAt least 5 million Americans attend a multisite church, where they often watch a video beamed in from another site and have access to all the advantages of a megachurch without the crowds. (Smietana, Religion News Service)
Read MoreThese popular films show, often in graphic detail, what Christians already know: that the evil in this world can be traced to supernatural powers that exist to deceive, degrade, and destroy human beings made in God’s image. Curses, witches, demons, the Devil—disparaged by some as superstitious nonsense, these phenomena are taken at face value in movies that place them at the center of their cosmologies. (Bell, Christianity Today)
Read MoreAmid anecdotal claims of a Gen Z religious revival, religion data analysts have been working over the last year to determine what, if anything, is changing in the religious lives of America’s young people. A new report from Pew Research Center, released Wednesday (Oct. 28), presents startling and conflicting findings. (Post, Religion News Service)
Read MoreResearchers have found that when people go beyond the rule-breaking they see in others, general compliance can swiftly turn into widespread rule-breaking. Dr. Lucas Molleman, from the University of Amsterdam and the first author of the research, said the goal was to explore how individuals make decisions about rule-breaking in a social context. (Davis, The Guardian)
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