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Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

By Lisa Miller

…ays they believe in Heaven: When asked, “Do you believe in heaven?” 80% of Americans answer yes. But almost no one has a clear idea of what it is they believe. I hope my book gives people a sense of what Western religious traditions and regular people say heaven is (and isn’t) and how those ideas have changed through history. I hope that my book will provoke readers to develop for themselves a clearer and more thought-out idea of heaven, whatever…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…ople would have gone on identifying as they had been and the percentage of Americans preferring no religion would have risen only [modestly]. Hout and Fischer released a study this year with Mark A. Chaves, which seemed to show that the trend continues. Their original findings have been partly confirmed by the Pew Forum, which found in 2012 that the nones overwhelmingly saw religious organizations as “too focused on rules,” “too concerned with mon…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…xpected to describe in totality the ways in which they wish to be treated fairly. It’s exhausting to explain and tiring to unpack. After all, we don’t exactly have a racism-free America to compare it to since, sadly, such a nation has never existed. Besides, how does one person teach another to treat human beings like human beings? But I can tell you without a doubt that a start would have been not being able to count on one hand the number of Bla…