Life beyond death, this great and unimaginable unknown, turns out to be as boring as the most banal parts of modern life, full of ads and customer-service agents and compromise. (Brobst, The New York Times)
Read More“We started the Reform UK Christian fellowship to persuade people to vote Reform,” explained 24 year-old Lachlan Rurlander, who organised the service. A sentiment which, for an insurgent party aiming for power at the next election, marks a dramatic statement of intent. (Leake & Frayne, The Telegraph)
Read MoreMillennial and Generation Z Christian influencers are increasingly filling a void in American religion, growing audiences across digital platforms by steering young people to biblical answers to tough questions that aren’t always answered in Sunday sermons. (Kramon, AP News)
Read MoreAbout 50 of Planned Parenthood’s nearly 600 clinics have shut down this year, largely because of Republican moves to cut the organization off from government money — fulfilling a long-held conservative dream to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider. (Kitchener & Cai, The New York Times)
Read MoreThe religiousness of U.S. adults is strongly linked with how much religion they had in their lives as kids. So we wondered: How are parents today raising their children – the next generation of adults – when it comes to religion? (Alper et al., Pew Research Center)
Read MoreA university has been accused of discriminating against Christians after allowing a nativity play called A Gay in a Manger to go ahead. York St John University’s LGBTQ network is staging a play in which the baby Jesus and his parents Mary and “Jo” are depicted as homosexual, the three wise men as drag queens and heaven as a gay disco. (McArdle & Dixon, The Telegraph)
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