Showing posts with label millennials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label millennials. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2018

More on Recent News: White Evangelical Fervor for Trump at Record High; White Evangelicals and Racism; Millennials and Abortion; Cardinal Tobin on Listening to LGBTQ Folks

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Jacqueline Thomsen, " Poll: White evangelical support for Trump at record hig h" Some odds and ends of commentary on news...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Tuesday Long Reads: Trump and White Evangelicals; New Book on Trump and Evangelicals; How to Alienate Millennials from Pro-Life Movement

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Three long-read excerpts from essays I've read today that I think are very good reads — and which I'd like to recommend:
Friday, September 30, 2016

What's Church For? A Catholic, Evangelical, and New Atheist Perspective in Today's News Commentary

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It's interesting to see today, as I scan news commentary sites, a number of articles all commenting on the decisive exodus of you...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Glossolalia: Another Firing of Gay* Catholic Employee; Young Still Leaving Churches in Droves; Pence As "Evangelical Catholic"; Silly Media Meme About Trump Supporters' "Economic Anxiety"

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Glosses on the day's news: 1. You'll be shocked at this story ( not !): another day, another firing of a gay* employee of a...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Why I Keep Asking Where Francis Effect Is for Marginalized Catholics: Pretending Is Never Way to Build a Healthy Anything

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When I keep asking where the Francis effect is for various groups of marginalized Catholics (like the black Catholics about whom Anth...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Colleen Kochivar-Baker on Kim Davis and Her Handlers: "Anyone Who Gives a Fig about the Face of Christianity in America Should Be Sick at This Stunt"

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And more brilliant commentary on the faux religious liberty show staged by Rev. Mike Huckabee and Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, invo...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Valerie Tarico on Obsession of Patriarchal Christians with Lording It Over Women, Queers, and Kids, and Christian Smith on Mass Exodus of Young Catholics: Intertwining Stories

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As if she were writing from right inside this blog's ongoing discussion of connections between rigid patriarchal religion and abu...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Pew's Latest "Religious Landscape" Survey: Christian Affiliation Declining Sharply in U.S., "Nones" on the Rise, Largest Net Losses Among Catholics — Valuable Commentary

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Yesterday, Pew Research Center released a report on its findings in its latest "Religious Landscape" survey, which looks at ...
Friday, October 18, 2013

"Welcoming Churches" and the BS Meter of Millennials: Valuable Statements from Spirit Day

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Among the best statements I read yesterday in support of GLAAD's Spirit Day  was an essay, "I've Got Spirit, and So Do...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Peter Beinart on New York Elections and Rise of a New Left in American Politics

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For Peter Beinart , national political indicators are to be seen in Bill de Blasio's win in the New York Democratic primary. Bein...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

To Talk of Many Things

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And now time to catch up on this and that. I mentioned some time ago (I think) that my nephew Luke had completed his master’s degree in ...