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According to a new report, a large number of Americans are leaving church amid growing dissatisfaction with religion. The survey, titled Generation Z and the Future of Faith in America, found that Gen Z is now the least religious generation, with 34 percent identifying as religiously unaffiliated. Millennials (29 percent), Gen X (25 percent), baby […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was released from the hospital Friday morning, one week after he was admitted due to flu-like symptoms, the court said. The court on Friday did not give any further information about his condition, according to ScotusBlog, a website that covers the Supreme Court in-depth. Thomas, 73, is the second-oldest member […]
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate who wants his pastor to pray over him and lay hands on him during his execution. The state of Texas had blocked both requests by inmate John Ramirez, who is on death row for a murder committed in 2004. Ramirez alleged that […]
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday declined to define the word “woman” during an exchange with U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn. Blackburn described the answer as troubling and said it sends a message to female athletes that “their voices don’t matter.” Jackson, during an exchange with another senator, also said she could not provide […]
A new Deseret News/Marist Poll survey found that most Americans believe “the nation’s moral compass is pointed in the wrong direction.” According to the “Faith in America” survey, 72 percent of Americans believe the moral compass of the U.S. is pointed in the wrong direction. Among Christians, 74 percent agreed, and among non-religious Americans, 69 […]
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 21, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Pakistan beat and arrested a Christian on Tuesday (March 16) for allegedly making blasphemous comments on social media and later tortured him into confessing guilt, sources said. Cybercrime officials from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Gujranwala Circle raided the Lahore home of Fansan Shahid, […]
Jeremiah J. Johnston | President of Christian Thinkers Society | Monday, March 21, 2022 Christianity has changed the world in so many significant ways, many of which we are probably not even aware of on a daily basis. In his new book “Unimaginable: What our World Would be Like without Christianity,” […]
A new report from Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program shows that Christians, Jews and Muslims all face workplace discrimination but also in different ways. According to Religion News Service, Muslims and Jews in the study say they’ve felt targeted in the context of being part of a larger group. Meanwhile, evangelical Christians say […]
Sir Isaac Newton, in a letter written in 1675 to fellow scientist Robert Hooke, wrote, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Chuck Colson was one of those giants for many of us, and it is our privilege to steward his legacy at the Colson Center. In […]
The percentage of teens who identify as atheist is double that of the general population, according to new research from Barna. Atheism and secularism are growing trends in our postmodern culture, and it is important to understand these trends if we are ever to reverse them. The youngest generation is sure to have a great […]