By December, the country wants to remove more than a million young teens from social media, under a groundbreaking law that sets a minimum age of 16 to use the platforms. But with fewer than six months before the new regulation goes into effect, much about its implementation remains unclear or undecided. (Kim, New York Times)
Read MoreThe Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to decide whether states may ban transgender students from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity, revisiting the issue of LGBTQ rights in a blockbuster case just days after upholding a ban on some health care for trans youth. (Fritze & Cole, CNN)
Read MoreAs of 2020, people who identify with a religion make up about 76% of the world’s population, according to a new Pew Research Center study on global religious change. This is down by about 1 percentage point from 2010. The decline is largely due to people shedding their religious identity after having been raised in a religion. (Tong, Pew Research)
Read MoreFor the past 15 years, Jersey Road has been pitching stories about Christian organisations to the media. Our founding motivation was that we had a sense that the public narrative around Christianity – often influenced by the media – was narrow and stereotyped. The narrative often presented was that the Church was abusive by nature, and that churches are dying in the pews. (Jersey Road)
Read MoreGiven his rallies and political connections, Feucht is “maybe the most effective evangelical figure on the far right,” Matthew D. Taylor, the senior Christian scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, told me. He is a big reason Christian nationalism has more purchase now than at any other point in recent history. (Breland, The Atlantic)
Read MoreThat the once wildest of rock and roll madmen seems capable of putting in a shift will doubtless be seen as good news by the 40-odd thousand people who, in some cases, have coughed up several hundred pounds for the privilege of watching Osbourne and Sabbath close their accounts. (Winwood, The Telegraph)
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