American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016
While LGBT evangelicals cheered on the SCOTUS decision on gay marriage, evangelical institutions lobbied for…
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How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?
What inspired you to write Losing Our Religion: How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children? It…
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Is It the Job of Religion Journalists to Define “Religion”?
Weighing in on historian Damon Linker’s suggestion that the Times’ Mark Oppenheimer has just written himself out of a job.
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Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”
It’s primary season in America, that special time when we come together as a nation…
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In a way, the Christian Post‘s Kevin Shrum is quite right about why young people reject…
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The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work
In a much talked-about Op-Ed in Time last week in the wake of the Supreme Court’s…
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Data-Mining Denominations: Same-Sex Marriage Edition
We’re running out of Mondays before the Supreme Court hands down its ruling on the…
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American Religion By the Numbers: A Pew Survey Roundup
SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE: RELIGIOUS (NON) AFFILIATION MIGHT NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS…
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Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means
If religious kitsch is a guilty pleasure, one of my favorite indulgences is a graphic…
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What the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience
Having spent most of the last two years in conversation with Nones, seekers, doubters, and…
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