spiritual but not religious

We all know about the grassroots activism of the “religious right” and the role they play in US political life. The promise of a surging “religious left” has recently generated attention, with others…

Popularity in public figureheads is fleeting. As the newly-elected president enters office with the lowest approval ratings of an incoming president in 40 years and contentious elections prepare to…

“There is absolutely nothing to stop us ‘seculars’ from following Jesus.”

Catholics are suffering the largest decline among major religious groups.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in the midst of a massive building campaign to serve the estimated 14 million Mormons throughout the world. Of the 81 temples currently in the U.S…

Those panicking over the rise of the Nones have been looking for the youth in the wrong places and asking them the wrong questions when they do find them. Christianity, and a very orthodox Christianity at that, is hiding in plain sight.

Did I really need to learn How To Be Here, urgently, right now? The book’s publisher had sent me not one advance reading copy, but three. A sign from the universe? I decided to read the book to find…

You can read about them in a steady stream of reports heralding the demise of 21st-century American Christianity: the growing population of “Nones” who are no longer filling church pews. The label, of…

A new Pew Research Center analysis of General Social Survey data confirms a long-simmering trend in U.S. religious observance: While attendance at religious services has declined for all Americans, it…

Christian ethicist David Gushee recently coined a phrase that may stick around for a while: ” half-churched Christians.” Mainline Protestant pastors like myself are more than familiar with gloomy…