If by weekly messages of hope you mean going to church regularly on Sundays*, that's an interesting point I hadn't considered in this context before.
Can you provide a citation for the pew research on the weekly messages of hope, whether my above inference was correct or not? If it's not Sunday services at church, I'd love to know what else I can do inject some hope into my weeks.
* or whatever is the holy day in a given church congregation.
“A new Pew Research Center study of the ways religion influences the daily lives of Americans finds that people who are highly religious are more engaged with their extended families, more likely to volunteer, more involved in their communities and generally happier with the way things are going in their lives.”
I think you assumed they meant faith, when it really could just be influences. You are a product of your surroundings, and if your existence is tied to the Internet then those surroundings can include many negative things. The Internet has great power in the right hands, but it can also be dangerous in the wrong hands.
Can you provide a citation for the pew research on the weekly messages of hope, whether my above inference was correct or not? If it's not Sunday services at church, I'd love to know what else I can do inject some hope into my weeks.
* or whatever is the holy day in a given church congregation.