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Lodz, Poland The secularisation of Western societies is not a new phenomenon, nor one which has been overlooked by cultural commentators in recent years. As a leading authority on changing belief systems, and as a director of the World Values Survey over many years, the University of Michigan’s Professor Ronald Inglehart has a particular expertise here. His newly-published book, Drawing upon data from the World Values Survey and the European Values Study collected in over 100 countries between 1981 and 2020, as well as a range of other sources, Inglehart also puts forward his theories about what has caused this shift, and what it will mean in the coming years. ....
The attacks on the nuclear family are half-right Print this article “The nuclear family was a mistake,” declared David Brooks back in March. “We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure, declared a New York City teachers union group affiliated with Black Lives Matter. “Parent is an oppressive class,” declared Noah Berlatsky, an opinion writer published at places such as NBC and CNN. These arguments can sound like radical Year Zero, hyperrationalist insanity. It could sound like someone who read too much Kant too poorly and decided it was unethical to love his own children more than anyone else. Or it sounds like some French Revolution- or Leninist-inspired attempt to overthrow all pre-existing social order and start afresh and enlightened. ....
Print this article Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said in prepared remarks Thursday: “We need to think about what is truly the most important thing. Is it the worship or the building? For me, God is wherever you are. You don t have to sit in the church pew for God to hear your prayers.” On one level, Northam is obviously right: God can always hear our prayers. On another level, it seemed like Northam was giving his own, possibly sectarian, theology (he is a Baptist) from the governor’s pulpit, implying that buildings and communal gatherings don’t matter. This upset plenty of people, including me. Catholic churches are consecrated places. The Mass is the center of Catholic worship, and Holy Communion, which must be administered physically, is the center of Mass. ....
Really show. the numbers show did you go to church you actually live longer. if you go to church regularly, your children are less likely end up addicted to drugs and finish high school. men who go to church are more likely to get married and less likely to get divorced. all of these good life outcomes, the numbers show again and again going to church. now, again, i want to say going to, belonging to, that s the key here. griff: i just converted to catholicism in recent years. try to go. a lot of times i m on the road. a lot of times people aren t going. a lot of forces calling people away. one is technology. easier on a sunday morning to sit home the way we connect with people is changing every day. seven days out of the week because of facebook, twitter, your phone. but also there has been one big problem that i talk about throughout the book is government has displaced a lot of what churches used to do. one draw to church for people was this is an opportunity to feed my neighbors. ....