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Posts Tagged ‘religious practice’

• Are We Becoming Europe-lite?

  Posted November 10th, 2009 at 12:32pm in Family and Religion with 13 comments

  Is the US merely tagging behind its European neighbors on a road to a thoroughly secular, social democracy? As the Obama Administration stretches its fingers into education, health care and failing companies, the question lingers ominously. But columnist Cheryl Wetzstein notes that, when it comes to faith and family, we’re not quite there yet. She supports [...] More

• Generation Y: What’s Faith Got To Do With It?

  Posted October 28th, 2009 at 6:07pm in Family and Religion with 3 comments

  Generation Y is widely defined as the 77 million Americans born between 1977 and 1997 — and as any good demographic sample would, it’s being analyzed. A Denver Post blogger opines on why Gen Y’ers are moving back in with their parents. JD Power and Associates dissects Gen Y’s buying patterns and suggests that the recession is [...] More

• Faith and the Teenage Soul

  Posted October 16th, 2009 at 12:29pm in Family and Religion with 3 comments

  Research and policy proposals to make sense of the teenage years tend to address concerns such as educational achievement, sexuality, drug abuse and suicide. Noted sociologist and University of Notre Dame professor Christian Smith has spent much of his career delving into a curiously overlooked aspect of teenage life — religion. His research offers insights into teenage [...] More