Jess Meeth is the National Communications Director for Democrats for Life of America (DFLA). Millennial editor Robert Christian interviewed her about her faith, work, and perspectives on the whole life movement. How did you become involved in whole life advocacy? Before I joined the team at DFLA, I worked as a counselor with a nonprofit… Read More The Whole Life Movement Post-Dobbs: An Interview with Jess Meeth
via Gallup: A record-high 39% of Americans now say that consuming one to two drinks a day is bad for one’s health, marking an 11-percentage-point increase since 2018…. The increased belief that moderate alcohol consumption is detrimental is owed largely to young adults aged 18-34, among whom it has risen 18 points since 2018. That… Read More Majority of Young Adults Recognize ‘Moderate Drinking’ Is Harmful
Check out these recent articles from around the web: How America Got Mean by David Brooks: “We inhabit a society in which people are no longer trained in how to treat others with kindness and consideration. Our society has become one in which people feel licensed to give their selfishness free rein. The story I’m… Read More Around the Web
via Tish Harrison Warren: Eboo Patel wants to tell a better story about religion in America. Patel, an American Muslim and founder and president of Interfaith America, a Chicago-based nonprofit that aims to promote cooperation across religious differences, served on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships and has written five books, including… Read More Why Organized Religion Is Important for American Society
Check out these recent articles from around the web: What if We’re the Bad Guys Here? by David Brooks: “The most important of those systems is the modern meritocracy. We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes people on the basis of the quality that we possess most: academic achievement. Highly educated parents… Read More Around the Web
Tish Harrison Warren writes: People like me, who hold to what the Roman Catholic cardinal Joseph Bernardin called a “consistent ethic of life” and what the Catholic activist Eileen Egan referred to as “the seamless garment” of life don’t have a clear political home. A “whole life” ethic entails a commitment to life “from womb… Read More Can the Whole Life Approach Break Our Political Stalemate?
Amber and David Lapp write: We’ve spent the past decade living in a working-class town in southwestern Ohio, initially on a short-term research project and then settling in as citizens, neighbors, and friends—so that is the vantage from which we understand America. For this memo we talked with 14 of our neighbors about the American… Read More 6 Themes from Working Class People in Ohio
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