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As Irish Flee the Church, a Push For Reform

By Diane Winston

…only speckle the crowd. Three days of talking with Church leaders help put numbers and pictures in perspective. But their insights on the Church’s problems make the new pope’s task sound all the more difficult. Many of the Irish Church’s fiercest critics are also its most devoted sons and daughters, who came of age when the social teachings of the Second Vatican Council provided a religious foundation for post-’60s currents of cultural change. Tak…

Yet Another Survey Shows ‘Nones’ Growth at Record Levels

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s belief, typified by belief in God, remains very widespread—59 percent of Americans believe in God without any doubt,” adding that, “Atheism is barely growing,” with 1% in 1962 and 3% in 2012 indicating no belief in God. The report raises important questions about the relationship between religious affiliation, religious identity, and religiosity in general in the United States that may be addressed in future work by Hout and Fischer on generatio…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…fine him as a wealthy mogul detached from the everyday worries of everyday Americans. After a post-debate early October surge, Romney loses the November election, 53%–47%. (For RD’s take on how Romney might have addressed religion, see here and here.) 2. LDS Church lowers the minimum age for missionary service for women from 21 to 19. The policy change, announced in October, was hailed as a welcome step towards leveling life expectations and oppo…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…or LGBT acceptance descended as a mighty rolling stream this past year, as Americans in four geographically diverse states voted for equality (against an anti-gay amendment in the case of Minnesota), and as voters in a fifth state (Iowa) rejected “Christian” pleas to recall a state supreme court justice who had supported marriage equality there. Many pundits take it for granted that popular media have had everything to do with normalizing gay peop…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…of his social and political analysis hinges on his sense of how mainstream Americans “really” think, what sorts of broad psychological generalizations apply to this electorate. And it is this—the psychology of the market—that he feels Greenspan missed, because he found it uninteresting if not irrelevant. I was nearly seduced by the reasonableness of that analysis. Then it hit me: the current crisis has nothing to do with psychology; I wish it did….