With a new book set to release on September 8, 2026, Catholic author and Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Noelle Mering is putting a spotlight on the growing phenomenon of adult children severing ties with parents over political and ideological differences. The forthcoming title, No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships
This week the published studies gained 24 notes across 2 chapters in Mark. Each entry links to the chapter page, where the note sits beside the text and the commentaries. Mark 10 Mark 10:2 · open in the reader · from Mark Once again, the Pharisees try to trap Jesus, this time with a question they cannot answer
In the past several years, a cluster of popular Christian teaching sites has published fresh articles tackling a question that rarely surfaces in formal church statements but continues to interest lay readers: can angels die, and if so, in what sense? Major evangelical apologetics ministries, conditional immortality advocates, and Catholic catechetical resources have all weighed
A growing body of demographic research is drawing attention to how economic uncertainty, delayed partnership and shifting attitudes toward family life are together pushing fertility rates downward in many parts of the world. Analyses of recent recessions in Europe and the United States consistently find that periods of rising unemployment are followed by short-term drops in
The United States is on course to complete the current fiscal year without resettling a single refugee who fled their country because of religious persecution, a prospect Christian aid agencies say would mark a break from at least a quarter-century of practice. Refugee advocates trace the shift to a series of Trump administration decisions that first
A coalition of clergy abuse survivors has launched ProtestantAccountability.org, a national database that compiles public information on more than 2,700 Protestant pastors and church workers who have been publicly accused of sexual abuse or of mishandling allegations in their ministries. The project, announced in an online press conference organized by the Survivors Network of those
New international research is finding that young adults are now reporting the lowest levels of wellbeing, even as religious practice emerges as a powerful predictor of flourishing. Together, the Global Flourishing Study and Gallup’s global polling point to a decade-long rise in unhappiness and a surprising protective role for regular worship attendance. The Global Flourishing Study
In recent months, a cluster of Catholic and evangelical ministries has published fresh resources on guardian angels, reflecting renewed efforts to explain what the Bible and Christian tradition do—and do not—teach about angelic protection. Across these resources, teachers point first to passages such as Psalm 91:11–12, which speaks of God giving angels charge over his people,
Christian advocates and human rights analysts are warning that a new Iranian “anti-infiltration” bill, framed as a defence against foreign espionage, could significantly expand the state’s ability to criminalise ordinary contact between Iranian Christians and churches, ministries and media abroad. Iran’s parliament has approved the general outlines of a 33-article draft law officially described as a
Armed gang members stormed a Protestant church compound being used as a shelter for displaced families in the hillside town of Kenscoff, southeast of Haiti's capital, killing at least 47 people and kidnapping more than 50 others, according to United Nations and local officials. The overnight assault from August 23 to 24 turned the once quiet