Hundreds of thousands of protesters inspired by frustrated high school students took to the streets across France on Saturday in a third consecutive weekend of demonstrations over living costs and education. Youth-led protests were also held elsewhere in Europe, including in Germany and Portugal. (Nouvian, AP News)
Read MoreAfter a prolonged decline, religion in the United States has shown signs of strength and stability in recent years.Since 2020, steady percentages of U.S. adults have said they identify with a religion, pray daily, consider religion to be very important in their lives and attend religious services at least monthly, according to the newest Pew Research Center surveys. (Smith et al., Pew Research)
Read More"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)
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