Are you familiar with the concept of religious deconstruction? No? Well, are you aware of the fact that 70% ~ 90% of young people leave the church when they leave high school? Or what about the statistic that when churches reopened after the COVID lockdowns, over 20 million people basically…
The controversy over “wokeness” has been a very prominent part of modern society throughout the last several years. In recent times, it emerged with a vengeance with the #MeToo movement. This really took off with the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal where women, at a grassroots level, began to push…
America’s next door neighbor, Canada, seems like it ought to be a free democratic country, pretty much like America. It might surprise you that it is not.
When Canada was first colonized, there was a very strong Christian presence. Over the years, that Christian presence strengthened profoundly. As late as…
What do all the following famous TV and movie stars all have in common?
Tom Cruise; Jennifer Lawrence; Tom Hanks; Meryl Streep; Robert Duval; Cate Blanchett; Morgan Freeman; Viola Davis; Harrison Ford; Glenn Close; Will Smith; Angelina Jolie; Dustin Hoffman; Faye Dunaway; Denzel Washington; Natalie Portman; Brad Pitt; Nicole Kidman;…
What do the following famous TV and movie stars all have in common?
John Wayne; Steve McQueen; Marilyn Monroe; Bob Newhart; Johnny Carson; Lucille Ball; Mary Tyler Moore; Don Knotts; Doris Day; Paul Walker; Carrie Fisher; Suzanne Somers; Roy Scheider; Heath Ledger; Elvis Presley; Peter Boyle; Brittany Murphy; Leonard Nimoy;…
Shortly after the most recent presidential election, the democrat vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, was interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio. By his own admission, he was genuinely shocked that his ticket lost. He said, “I thought it was a real flex when the Wall Street Journal pointed out that I…
Recently the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (formerly LDS or Mormon church) had an open house for its new temple in Tallahassee, Florida. Non-members of the LDS were invited to tour the new facility and see first hand the rooms where the various “sacred” rituals are performed for…
Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine. He also writes a periodic newsletter called Up for Debate.
As he was preparing for one of his newsletters, he solicited some of his readers’ thoughts on their personal religious journeys – the results of which he published in…
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