A Peek Inside The Westboro Baptist Church
Wow, these guys are the absolute worst. You have to try pretty hard to be this hated by everyone.
I had no idea they were so organized… pretty interesting peek inside their “church.”
The splits across demographic groups as well as shift in just the past few years is pretty interesting.
Daily Chart: American opinion on gay marriage For the first time since the Pew Research Centre began conducting polls on the subject in 1995, fewer than half of Americans (48%) are opposed to gay marriage, while 42% are in favour.
The White Pages, Where Anybody Could Be Somebody
The residential White Pages may soon be a thing of the past. FINALLY.
How Segregated is Your City?
“Recently, cartographer Bill Rankin produced an astounding map of Chicago, which managed to show the city’s areas of racial integration. Eric Fischer saw those maps, and took it upon himself to create similar ones for the top 40 cities in the United States. Fisher used a straight forward method borrowed from Rankin: Using U.S. Census data from 2000, he created a map where one dot equals 25 people. The dots are then color-coded based on race: White is pink; Black is blue; Hispanic is orange, and Asian is green. The results for various cities are fascinating: Just like every city is different, every city is integrated (or segregated) in different ways.” ————————-
Cities of special interest to me:
The Perils of 'Wannabe Cool' Christianity
Brett McCracken writes in The Wall Street Journal’s Houses of Worship column about the perils of Hipster Christianity, and why he and other young evangelicals are being driven away by churches that try to be cool.
