Several hundred priests and more than a dozen bishops have abandoned Anglicanism to convert to Catholicism over the past three decades in a “surge” partly driven by the move to ordain women in the Church of England, a study has found. (Burgess, The Times)
Read MoreThe U.S. Coast Guard issued a new, more stringent policy on hate symbols including the swastika Thursday night, prohibiting “divisive or hate symbols or flags.” The change came hours after The Washington Post reported that the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under new guidelines set to be released next month. (Raj & Bisset, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThe season has morphed into a weeks-long festival of consumption, its own liturgical calendar’s worth of shopping holidays: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Boxing Day. The advent calendar began as a form of religious expression. It still is—it’s just a different religion. (Cushing, The Atlantic)
Read MoreRecent Barna research reveals that only one in four single moms attends church weekly, the steepest drop among women in recent years. The finding raises an uncomfortable question: Are churches truly heeding the biblical command to care for the vulnerable in their midst? (Andersen, Christianity Today)
Read MoreTens of thousands of kids who take prescription ADHD medication also wind up on other powerful psychotropic drugs—including antipsychotics and antidepressants, studies show. For some of them, the ADHD drugs themselves can be a trigger. (Ramachandran et al., The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreArtificial intelligence can miss critical warning signs and fail to detect psychiatric emergencies, yet because the chatbots show competence in some areas, teens might assume they are reliable for mental-health support, the study found. (Wells, The Wall Street Journal)
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