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Modeling the Future of Religion in America

Stephanie Kramer, Conrad Hackett, Marcin Stonawski - Primary Researchers Pew Research Center
If recent trends in religious switching continue, Christians could make up less than half of the U.S. population within a few decades

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Deal With the Devil

Sarah Posner The Nation
The roots of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe go back 50 years, when zealots preaching a gospel of misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.

How Black Churches Can Change the World

Stephanie Luce and Rev. Edwin Robinson Convergence
Reverend Edwin Robinson explains how organizers are using a generational shift to transform Black churches into powerful social justice congregations.

Tidbits – July 14, 2022 – Reader Comments: Hearings, GOP Witnesses Show Trump Planned Armed Coup; Supreme Court Rules Based on Lies, Religion; Librarians, Books Under Attack; Starbucks Union Grows; Socialism 2022 Conference Labor Day Weekend

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Reader Comments: Hearings and Republican Witnesses Show that Trump Planned Armed Coup; Supreme Court Rules Based on Lies, and Religion; Librarians and Books Under Attack; Starbucks Union Grows; Socialism 2022 Conference Labor Day weekend; more ....

The Myth at the Heart of the Praying Bremerton Coach Case

Danny Westneat Seattle Times
The Supreme Court ruled the football coach was fired for praying in private. In fact, he never applied for the job. In fact he prayed surrounded by students. The Supreme Court ruled based on a myth. So much for the Supreme Court.

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A Great Awakening

Molly Worthen The New York Times
This decade-old book is especially relevant now.

This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse

Russell Moore Christianity Today
"I only know firsthand the rage of one who wonders while reading what happened on the seventh floor of that Southern Baptist building, how many children were raped ... while we boasted that no one could reach the world for Jesus like we could."

The Real Dividing Line on Abortion

Meredith Conroy, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux FiveThirtyEight
These findings line up with decades of research suggesting that views of abortion are intimately linked to how people think about motherhood, sex and women’s social roles.

Friday Nite Videos | May 13, 2022

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George Carlin on Abortion and 'The Sanctity of Life.' Hakeem Jeffries Dismantles Clarence Thomas. Waterman | Documentary w/ Jason Mamoa. A Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole. Abortion Ruling | John Oliver.
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