Barna has found that 66% of Americans say, "I have made a personal commitment to follow Jesus that is still important in my life today." But what does that mean?
"Hoist with his own petard" is a metaphor from Shakespeare meaning to get blown up by one's own bomb. Conservatives are using this as a political tactic: To use policies developed by the left against the left. But petards can blow up both ways.
The Supreme Court has ruled that states can ban transgender medical interventions for minors. The decision upheld a Tennessee law that is similar to that of 26 other states. Might this herald the end of sexual "transitions" for children?
The U.S. attacks Iran. Supremes rule nuns don't have to pay for abortions for employees. And an AI Chatbot company worth $1.5 billion was really 700 coders in India.
The most Christian region of the world is sub-Saharan Africa. The world's fastest growing religion is Islam.Those are among the findings of a major study from Pew Research, which tracks the changes in world religion from 2010 to 2020.
President Trump is being accused of backtracking on some of his signature issues, such as immigration, tariffs, and staying out of other countries' wars. Some of his MAGA supporters are now attacking him. Should they? Is this a "betrayal" or commendable pragmatism?
if Gioia is right that our existing knowledge system is collapsing, what might we expect to come next? Gioia thinks it will resemble what replaced the arid rationalism of the Enlightenment: Romanticism. That would hold both possibilities and new challenges for Christianity.
"The biggest news story of our century is happening right now—but is never mentioned in the press," says cultural critic Ted Gioia. It's a shift on the scale of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. He calls it "the collapse of the knowledge system."
Protests against efforts to deport illegal immigrants in Los Angeles degenerated into riots, as protesters burned vehicles, looted shops, and attacked (I.C.E.) agents with rocks, hunks of concrete, and fireworks. So President Trump called out the National Guard and the Marines. Is this tyranny or law & order? How effective are protests in swaying public opinion?
Israel's new war with Iran. Unemployment rate for computer engineering grads is double that of art history majors. And a slight gain in pro-life beliefs.