More white evangelicals than American Jews say God gave Israel to the Jewish people

(Older article, but I’d forgotten about this study) For example, twice as many white evangelical Protestants as Jews say that Israel was given to the Jewish people by God (82% vs. 40%). Some of the discrepancy is attributable to Jews’ lower levels of belief in God overall; virtually all evangelicals say they believe in God, compared with 72% of Jews (23% say they do not believe in God and 5% say they don’t know or decline to answer the question). But even Jews who do believe in God are less likely than evangelicals to believe that God gave the land that is now Israel to the Jewish people (55% vs. 82%).

When The Pendulum Hits You In The Head

Let us keep coming back to scripture and hold everything up to the filter we find there and see what shakes out. Let us be culturally familiar and culturally engaged and let us be in line with culture anywhere doing so doesn’t violate our scriptural priorities and mandates. This takes wisdom and we will undoubtedly mess it up but it is worth the effort.

59 Percent of Millennials Raised in a Church Have Dropped Out—And They’re Trying to Tell Us Why

1. Nobody’s Listening to Us
2. We’re Sick of Hearing About Values & Mission Statements
3. Helping the Poor Isn’t a Priority
4. We’re Tired of You Blaming the Culture
5. The “You Can’t Sit With Us” Affect
6. Distrust & Misallocation of Resources
7. We Want to Be Mentored, Not Preached At
8. We Want to Feel Valued
9. We Want You to Talk to Us About Controversial Issues (Because No One Is)
10. The Public Perception
11. Stop Talking About Us (Unless You’re Actually Going to Do Something)
12. You’re Failing to Adapt

What Are Your Rights if Border Agents Want to Search Your Phone?

The policies that give border agents the latitude to search or seize devices were used under the Obama administration, to much criticism. There’s no available data to suggest that they are happening more under the administration of President Trump, though activists say they have anecdotally heard of more reports.
A customs agency spokesman said the agency could not comment on individual cases. But he said agents had inspected 4,444 cellphones and 320 other electronic devices in 2015, amounting to 0.0012 percent of the 383 million arrivals.

‘This is really unprecedented’: ICE detains woman seeking domestic abuse protection at Texas courthouse

It was the first time in her 23 years at the courthouse, Bernal said, that she can remember ICE agents making their presence known during a protective order hearing. The agents had come to stake out the woman, identified by her initials I.E.G., because, Bernal speculates, they likely received a tip from the only other person who knew the time and place of the hearing — the woman’s alleged abuser.