At 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)
Read MorePints of Knowledge is an events series that hosts nightly academic talks in pubs and bars across London on everything from history and psychology to AI and the universe. All delivered by experts in their field, the talks have been running for little over a year, but have already attracted a huge following. (Martin, The Times)
Read MoreWhat does it mean to quiet quit a marriage? Much like the workplace version — doing the bare minimum to avoid getting fired — quiet quitting a marriage, or a “quiet divorce,” happens when one or both people stay together on paper but check out emotionally. (Ryu, The Washington Post)
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