The number of Americans who anticipate they will have “high-quality lives” in five years’ time has dropped to a nearly two-decade low, according to a poll released Tuesday. (Wu, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThe day after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home under the cover of night, her daughter, Savannah, made a heartbreaking appeal to pray for her mother. Guthrie’s faith – and insistence on the power of prayer – has been central throughout the almost weeklong saga of her mother’s disappearance. (Bailey, CNN)
Read MoreThe Swiss Federal Statistical Office recently published the results of its survey on the religious landscape in Switzerland up to 2024. The data show that the “gradual secularisation” continues, with more people identifying as ‘nones’, or “without religion”. This group now represents 36.8% of the Swiss population, compared to 23% in 2014. (Evangelical Focus)
Read MoreHere's a look at some of the most interesting commercials unveiled in advance and during the Super Bowl broadcast, showing the bold swings marketers took on the biggest stage in media. (Deggans, NPR)
Read MoreWhat is it with our National Football League obsession—especially the televised version of it? How and why did pro football become such an integral part of the American experience? (Serwer, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreLast year, a team of researchers from Belgium, the United States and Denmark launched an ambitious effort to explain these experiences on a neurobiological level — work that is now being contested by a pair of researchers in Virginia. (Johnson, The Washington Post)
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