{"id":16,"date":"2012-06-05T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2012-06-05T05:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:00:50","slug":"the-morning-buzz-june-5-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-5-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Buzz | June 5, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong>Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? For the next week, I\u2019m leaving the Buzz in the capable hands of my coworker, Samantha Holquist, while I visit my sister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yMLzB1fsSTc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in Brazil<\/a>. I\u2019ll be back next Wednesday \u2013 until then, I\u2019ll miss you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all <a href=\"http:\/\/globalspin.blogs.time.com\/2012\/05\/21\/a-royal-party-britain-celebrates-60-years-of-queen-elizabeth-ii\/#britains-queen-elizabeth-is-greeted-by-chelsea-pensioners-as-she-arrives-at-chelsea-pier-for-the-start-of-a-pageant-in-celebration-of-the-her-diamond-jubilee-in-london\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hats<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/globalspin.blogs.time.com\/2012\/05\/21\/a-royal-party-britain-celebrates-60-years-of-queen-elizabeth-ii\/#008-42-34717684\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">scary masks<\/a> at Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s Diamond Jubilee. You have to hand it to them: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40433959\/ns\/business-world_business\/t\/royal-wedding-yields-deluge-tchotchkes\/#.T80DVj5YuPI\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the British love<\/a> celebrating their royalty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-33667_162-57446086\/queen-elizabeth-iis-diamond-jubilee-a-fiesta-for-souvenir-sellers\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">with tchotchkes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Christian pastors are using Twitter to send out inspirational messages, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/02\/technology\/christian-leaders-are-powerhouses-on-twitter.html?_r=3&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20120602\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Twitter\u2019s doing its best<\/a> to bring even more on board.<\/p>\n<p>Generation X-ers (that is, Americans born between 1965 and 1972) are becoming less religiously unaffiliated and less Republican as they\u2019ve aged, at least according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/under-god\/post\/huge-religion-survey-gen-x-ers-less-christian-less-republican\/2012\/05\/31\/gJQAcjpA5U_blog.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a new survey from Trinity College<\/a>. This contradicts conventional wisdom that suggests that people become more conservative (religiously and politically) as they age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/155021\/Majority-Dissatisfied-Next-Generation-Prospects.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=syndication&amp;utm_content=morelink&amp;utm_term=Politics\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A new Gallup poll<\/a> found that a majority of Americans are \u201cdissatisfied with the opportunity for the next generation of Americans to live better than their parents.\u201d This spring, <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/research\/2012\/04\/millennial-values-survey-2012\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">PRRI discovered that approximately <\/a>4-in-10 (42%) of younger Millennials believe that, in their lifetime, they will be better off than their parents, compared to 18% who expect to be less well off than their parents, and 38% who predict that their financial situation will be about the same as their parents\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>American Catholic nuns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/world\/2012\/06\/04\/us-nuns-push-back-against-vatican-crackdown\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">are standing their ground<\/a> against the Vatican, to the delight of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/catholic-nuns-push-back\/2012\/06\/01\/gJQAR69k7U_blog.html?wprss=rss_on-faith\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">some lay followers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want to stop corruption? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/study-better-educated-citizens-improve-government-by-complaining-more\/2012\/06\/04\/gJQA9w0RDV_blog.html?wprss=rss_ezra-klein\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Just complain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Want to receive the Morning Buzz as a daily email?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/manage\/optin\/ea?v=00147Jgk4c64VM0OjMchp7XFQ==\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sign up here<\/a>. For updates and coverage throughout the day, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PublicReligion\" shape=\"rect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/publicreligion\" shape=\"rect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=gAAbV40DVZc:_L36T7DafOk:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=gAAbV40DVZc:_L36T7DafOk:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute\/~4\/gAAbV40DVZc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? For the next week, I&#8217;m leaving the Buzz in the capable hands of my coworker, Samantha Holquist, while I visit my sister in Brazil. I&#8217;ll be back next Wednesday &#8211; until then, I&#8217;ll miss you! It&#8217;s all hats and scary&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-5-2012\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,22,23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholics","category-clergy-churches","category-evangelicals","category-millennials","category-morning-buzz"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Morning Buzz | June 5, 2012<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? 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