If respondents gained a Catholic friend over the course of the year, their feelings of warmth toward Catholics almost doubled. If respondents befriended an evangelical, then evangelicals as a group “completely closed the gap,” according to Mr. Campbell — meaning that they inspired neutral feelings instead of negative ones.
Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit writing in the Boston Review:
Part of what has made Star Trek such a powerful franchise has been its eerie habit of taking the barometer of its times (often the best of its times), and of pointing a way forward. It showed the first interracial kiss on American television, and it invented the flip-phone. I hope, for our sake, that Star Trek has finally gotten out of touch.
Why does biblical religion that sees every person as created in God’s image so easily become a sponsor of human rights violations in the area of sex and gender?
Here is our weekly collection plate, offering some of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week. And other news fit to print.
Although he couldn’t find the time to be in Jamaica last week to participate in the JSC and close votes in the Anglican Consultative Council, the Archbishop of Uganda is in California this weekend for a bit of continued intervention in other Provinces.
We are hearing more and more conservative pundits and religious leaders have begun to criticize the tax rule that strictly prohibits tax-exempt charities and religious organizations from direct political campaign activity.
On the eve of President Obama’s visit to Notre Dame, two polls are released that show that views on abortion among Americans is in motion, but more complex than headlines may indicate
Here is how some people would text or tweet the Lord’s Prayer in 160 characters or less.
Andrew Brown looks back at recent Anglican Consultative Council and sees the future. It is a world of journalism without reporters and where the news-gatherers and the lobbyists are one in the same.