Leadingchurch.com

RNS

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2016/08/couple_discourages_visits_to_c.html#incart_river_home_pop

Tampa Bay

RNS Loaves and Fishes

Melinda Selmys

Political correctness thus functions as a kind of etiquette and like all etiquette it serves two purposes: first, to smooth the way for conversation by making it mannerly, and second, to systemically exclude the lower classes from serious discourse and positions of power.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/23/harvard-grant-study-robert-waldinger-ted/

Denisonforum.org

Rather, McWhorter sees it as evidence of a culture in which there is “a certain joy in this ritual, stylized witch hunting” and where people’s responses in these situations are more “a kind of ritual piety designed to demonstrate our goodness to the PC gods” than genuine disdain. It seems hard to look around us and not agree with that assessment. But why is that? Why is it that so many people take enjoyment from demonizing others for a careless word or shortsighted remark?

Denisonforum.org

That means more than a third of all Christians and more than a quarter of all Americans have become more active in regards to their faith in recent years. Coupled with the fact that a smaller percentage of people are moving away from their faith than those who are moving towards it, the trends paint a far more encouraging picture than we often have of the religious landscape in our culture.

The group’s most interesting and relevant findings, however, relate more to the why behind those statistics than the numbers themselves. Among those becoming more serious about their faith, religious motivations, such as the sense that they need more of God in their lives, were the most common reason for their increased attendance. That’s important because it points to a more vibrant relationship with God than those who might have chosen to come for less spiritual reasons.