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The Briefing 10-13-17

Who is responsible for the secularization of America’s young people? FiveThirtyEight (Daniel Cox) — College Professors Aren’t Killing Religion

Whose priorities are fueling the secularization of America’s youth: parents, professors, or both?

What are marketers telling us about millennials?Wall Street Journal (Ellen Byron) — America’s Retailers Have a New Target Customer: The 26-Year-Old Millennial

Worldview Book Recommendation: The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-RelianceSt. Martin’s Press (Ben Sasse) — The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-RelianceThinking in Public (Albert Mohler) — Vanishing Adulthood and the American Moment: A Conversation with Senator Ben Sasse

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Jesus Is the Only Way to Heaven

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The Briefing 10-12-17

The next step in the evolution of the Boy Scouts of America: accepting girlsLos Angeles Times (Kurtis Lee) — The newest step in the evolution of the Boy Scouts: accepting girls

The words "boys" and "girls" are becoming increasingly ironic

The Pope condemns the death penalty America Magazine (Gerard O’Connell) — Pope Francis: The death penalty is contrary to the Gospel

The importance of Sola Scriptura asserts itself on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

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Luke 10:38-42

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The Briefing 10-11-17

Historic College at Oxford says Christianity is just too harmful for freshmenTimes of London (Rosemary Bennett) — Balliol College Oxford bans Christians from freshers fairThe Telegraph (Camilla Turner and Tony Driver) — Oxford college bans 'harmful' Christian Union from freshers' fairThe Guardian (Caroline Davies) — Anger as Oxford college bans Christian group from freshers' fair

Why are advertisers turning to porn as a data metric?AdAge (Daniel Carter) — Porn: The Dark Data Metric for Gauging Cultural Attention

A fact checker discovers that America really is an outlier on abortionWashington Post (Michelle Ye Hee Lee) — Is the United States one of seven countries that ‘allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy?’

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The Briefing 10-10-17

When did the Kennedy family change its position on abortion?Wall Street Journal (Anne Hendershott) — How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma

Alabama Senate candidate flaunts pro-abortion position. Why are the media ignoring it? Birmingham News (Leada Gore) — Doug Jones, Alabama Democratic Senate hopeful, wouldn't support 20-week abortion ban

The rise of the occult in headlines from AfricaReligion News Service (Doreen Ajiambo) — Witch doctors are sacrificing children in drought-stricken Uganda

What Sally Quinn’s fascination with the occult tells us about high society and ourselvesWashingtonian Magazine (Michelle Cottle) — Sally Quinn’s Next ActReligion News Service (Jeremy Lower) — In Greece, the evil eye is trending

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The Briefing 10-09-17

A clash of orthodoxies: Trump administration's reversal of contraception mandate sets off firestormNew York Times (Editorial Board) — Mr. Trump’s Attack on Birth ControlBoston Globe (Editorial Board) — Protect free access to birth controlNew York Times (Robert Pear) — Trump Administration Set to Roll Back Birth Control Mandate

Two different conceptions of how to read a law on display in AG Session’s Title VII guidanceNew York Times (Charlie Savage) — In Shift, Justice Dept. Says Law Doesn’t Bar Transgender DiscriminationUSA Today (Kevin Johnson) — Jeff Sessions: Transgender people not protected from workplace discrimination

Why rival charges of hypocrisy are sometimes both rightNew York Times (Jennifer Weiner) — The Flagrant Sexual Hypocrisy of Conservative MenNew York Times (Ross Douthat) — The Pigs of Liberalism

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Exodus 30:1-38

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The Briefing 10-06-17

Partisanship comes to late-night: What the turn in comedy tells us about the cultureNew York Times (Jim Rutenberg) — Colbert, Kimmel and the Politics of Late Night

Dark, anxious, and realistic: Why comedians now want audiences to wince while they laughNew York Times (Jason Zinoman) — Watch the Evolution of Cringe Comedy in 9 Clips

Art as a form of moral subversion: Exhibit about gender aims to upend very idea of genderNew York Times (Holland Cotter) — When It Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign

Worldview book recommendation: “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo IshiguroAmazon (Kazuo Ishiguro) — The Remains of the Day

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The Briefing 10-05-17

After House passes 20-week abortion ban, sanctity of human life could hang by a Senate ruleNew York Magazine (Ed Kilgore) — House Passes 20-Week Abortion Ban on Near-Perfect Party-Line VoteRolling Stone (Emily Crockett) — Just After Las Vegas, Republicans Are Voting to Restrict ... AbortionMother Jones (Nina Liss-Shultz) — House Republicans Just Voted (Again) to Outlaw Abortions After 20 Weeks

While upholding sanctity of life with his vote, PA congressman undermines it in personal lifePolitico (Rachael Bade, Elena Schneider, and John Bresnahan) — Embattled GOP Rep. Tim Murphy to retire

Political hypocrisy on the sanctity of life is not only immoral and humiliating, it’s deadlyChicago Tribune (Kim Geiger and Rick Pearson) — Rauner signs controversial abortion bill, angering conservativesChicago Tribune (Kristin McQueary) — Rauner's stunning betrayal of his conservative base

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