The annual Values and Belief Survey from Gallup has found that nearly close to half Americans–with more than that in specific demographics–believe that pornography is “morally acceptable.” And for some reason the numbers have jumped significantly higher over last year. Altogether 43% of Americans find pornography
For many people, work is their religion. Their work gives meaning to their lives, establishes their identity, guides their everyday actions, and is the locus for their hope. “What does it mean to have a god?” asks Luther. “A god means that from which we
President Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from the traditional White House reception for SuperBowl champions. The president castigated NFL players for protesting America by taking a knee during the National Anthem. But the Philadelphia Eagles were one of eight NFL teams whose players always stood
Despite the “seal of confession,” priests in the Church of England are being required to notify authorities if a penitent confesses to committing sexual abuse. Therefore, new guidelines have the priest telling the penitent beforehand not to confess anything that the priest might have to
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jack Phillips, the Christian baker in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony. The decision turned on specific factors in the case, so it stopped short of definitively resolving the conflict between religious
We have blogged about how intersectionality–the fellowship of all of the oppressed under the unity of leftist ideology–is functioning as a new religion. The Federalist‘s Nathanael Blake takes this further. Drawing on an essay by Black intellectual and “radical centrist” John McWhorter (also worth reading), Blake
Religion has its beliefs, but it also has a social dimension, with governance, organization, finance, and member involvement. A new religion has been proposed, called 0xΩ (not sure how to pronounce that), with uses technology to allow a crowd to work out their practices and their
Fellow Patheos blogger Tom Hobson, a Presbyterian pastor with a doctorate from Concordia Seminary, has written some posts at Biblical Words and World about ancient heresies and how they are showing up today. (See this and this.) I was struck by his account of the Marcionites, who
Brian Truitt of USA Today complains that there isn’t any sex in the Star Wars universe and calls on the filmmakers to rectify that situation! But there is sex in Star Wars. The whole storyline of the entire saga turns on sex. In his article Sex in ‘Star
In the ancient world, people read out loud, even when they were by themselves. Thus, Stephen could overhear the Ethiopian eunuch reading The Book of Isaiah as he drove by in his chariot. Not only that, as new research shows, people also read out loud
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