The most Christian region of the world is sub-Saharan Africa. The world's fastest growing religion is Islam.Those are among the findings of a major study from Pew Research, which tracks the changes in world religion from 2010 to 2020.
The most Christian region of the world is sub-Saharan Africa. The world's fastest growing religion is Islam.Those are among the findings of a major study from Pew Research, which tracks the changes in world religion from 2010 to 2020.
President Trump is being accused of backtracking on some of his signature issues, such as immigration, tariffs, and staying out of other countries' wars. Some of his MAGA supporters are now attacking him. Should they? Is this a "betrayal" or commendable pragmatism?
if Gioia is right that our existing knowledge system is collapsing, what might we expect to come next? Gioia thinks it will resemble what replaced the arid rationalism of the Enlightenment: Romanticism. That would hold both possibilities and new challenges for Christianity.
"The biggest news story of our century is happening right now—but is never mentioned in the press," says cultural critic Ted Gioia. It's a shift on the scale of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. He calls it "the collapse of the knowledge system."
Protests against efforts to deport illegal immigrants in Los Angeles degenerated into riots, as protesters burned vehicles, looted shops, and attacked (I.C.E.) agents with rocks, hunks of concrete, and fireworks. So President Trump called out the National Guard and the Marines. Is this tyranny or law & order? How effective are protests in swaying public opinion?
Israel's new war with Iran. Unemployment rate for computer engineering grads is double that of art history majors. And a slight gain in pro-life beliefs.
The greatest chess player in the world was stalemated by 143,000 ordinary players who voted on every move. This example of collective wisdom is evidence of the value of democracy and tradition.
President Trump says he agrees with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that the federal debt limit should be repealed. Do you agree?
Secularist materialism is starting to fade. This is evident in the vogue of panpsychism, the view of some contemporary thinkers that all things possess some level of consciousness and that "the mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe."
Liberal pundit Jonathan Chait has written a provocative article for the Atlantic entitled T"he Coming Democratic Civil War." On one side are the "Abundance Liberals" and on the other are "the Groups."
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