By: George Yancey – stream.org – May 2, 2018 Why do people support sexual minorities — gays, lesbians and the transgendered? Is it purely that they agree with the people and their goals? My research, along with others’, suggests that while this appears to be their primary motivation, it’s not the whole story. Some of it is linked to hatred...

By: Paul A. Djupe & Ryan P. Burge – christianitytoday.com – April 30, 2018 The 2016 presidential election heightened an ongoing discussion over the allegiance of American evangelicals to the Republican Party. As countless articles and social media posts have observed, Donald Trump’s presidency has led many church leaders to warn against a too-warm embrace of politics and politicians, as...

By: Chris Kahn – reuters.com – April 30. 2018 Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among millennials as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll. The online survey of more than 16,000 registered voters ages 18 to 34 shows their support for Democrats over Republicans for Congress slipped by about...

By: The Christian Film and Television Commission – citizengo.org 6,326 people have signed. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. GQ magazine has reached a new low. On April 21st, the publication released an article listing the “21 Books You Don’t Have to Read.” The list included titles like Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and The Lord of the Rings. The editors also...

By: Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless, & Nicole Winfield – abcnews.go.com – April 24, 2018  A British judge on Tuesday said the parents of a terminally ill toddler cannot take him to Italy for treatment, a course of action U.K. courts have said would be futile and wrong. Justice Anthony Hayden rejected what he said was a final legal appeal by...

By: Matthew Diebel – usatoday.com – April 23, 2018 GQ Magazine placed the Bible on a list called “21 Books You Don’t Have to Read.” Veuer’s Sam Berman has the full story. Well, it appears this group of scribes won’t be greeted very warmly at the Pearly Gates. GQ magazine, a bible of “grooming” tips, gadget suggestions and style advice,...

By: Allen West – cnsnews.com – April 16, 2018 If there is one thing you can count on, it’s the ever shifting 24/7 news cycle. Mostly, and appropriately, perhaps, the news cycle over the weekend focused on the combined American, British, and French airstrikes against the Syrian chemical weapon production capability. However, there was a more important story from last...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – April 17, 2018 On Sunday evening, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait published a piece asking why more disgruntled Republicans don’t punish their party by switching sides. Chait notes that the “strongest defense against the election of an extreme or unfit leader is for his more mainstream partners to defect en masse.” Yet with few...

A year-long collaboration between the Hive, theSkimm, and SurveyMonkey focuses on female millennials as they prepare to vote in the 2018 midterms. This round takes a look at gender inequality in the workplace on Equal Pay Day. By: Maya Kosoff – vanityfair.com – April 9, 2018 It’s a familiar story to almost any woman in the workforce, from minimum-wage earners...

By: Craig Timberg, Tony Romm, & Elizabeth Dwoskin – washingtonpost.com – April 10 at 8:19 PM Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg endured an hours-long grilling by dozens of U.S. senators Tuesday during which he repeatedly apologized and promised privacy reforms but also pointedly defended his company against the threat of new legislation. Zuckerberg invoked Facebook’s unlikely journey — from a...