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Mormonism is still growing, but slowly

By Jana Riess — April 12, 2024
(RNS) — There's something for everyone to cheer — or boo — in the most recent data on the LDS church.

Study: Unaffiliated Americans are the only growing religious group

By Yonat Shimron — March 27, 2024
(RNS) — The Catholic Church saw the largest decline in religious affiliation of any religious group in 2023.

Poll shows slight dip in US support for LGBTQ rights across religious groups

By Kathryn Post — March 12, 2024
(RNS) — A strong majority of Americans, and majorities of many religious groups, still broadly support LGBTQ rights.

New survey finds pockets of support for Christian nationalism across the country

By Jack Jenkins — February 28, 2024
(RNS) — The survey found support for Christian nationalism concentrated in two religious groups: white evangelical Protestants and Hispanic Protestants.

The Catholic Church needs to play a positive role in this year’s election

By Thomas Reese — January 30, 2024
(RNS) — The Catholic partisan divide provides an opportunity for the church to model proper civic behavior.

With ‘vermin,’ Trump crosses fully into Nazi territory

By Robert P. Jones — November 16, 2023
(RNS) — Trump’s most recent comments should jar us back to our senses.

American Values Survey with Robert P. Jones; Diane Winston and Reagan’s Evangelical Vision

By Ray Kirstein — November 5, 2023
Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Dr. Robert P. Jones, founder and president at Public Religion Research Institute, about the 2023 American Values Survey; also, "Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision" author Dr. Diane Winston

Poll: More religious Americans support the use of political violence

By Fiona André — October 25, 2023
(RNS) — One-third of white evangelical Protestants support the idea, significantly more than any other religious group.

Survey: US religious groups do not view climate change as a crisis

By Yonat Shimron — October 4, 2023
(RNS) — Among white evangelicals, the view that the Earth is in crisis actually dropped — from 13% in 2014 to 8% today.

The white evangelical march toward climate disaster

By Mark Silk — October 4, 2023
(RNS) — The new PRRI survey shows that fewer and fewer of them consider climate change a crisis.

Survey: Mainline clergy are more liberal than their congregants

By Yonat Shimron — September 14, 2023
(RNS) — Mainline clergy are more supportive than their congregants of LGBTQ rights, more likely to have opposed the overturn of Roe v. Wade and less likely to believe America is in danger of losing its culture and identity.

Robert Jones’ new book roots white supremacy in 500-year-old papal decree

By Yonat Shimron — August 22, 2023
(RNS) — The Doctrine of Discovery shaped the way America’s white, European Christian settlers saw themselves and their mission and gave rise to uncontrollable outbursts of violence.

For many Pittsburgh Jews, Robert Bowers deserves the death penalty

By Yonat Shimron — August 3, 2023
(RNS) — The execution may be years or decades away, if it happens at all, but for the country’s worst act of antisemitism the death penalty sent a message that hatred of Jews should never be tolerated.

Rebecca Todd Peters is on a mission to get churches to talk about abortion

By Yonat Shimron — July 13, 2023
(RNS) — A Presbyterian minister and scholar is working to shift the cultural paradigm that abortion is sin.

LGBTQ+ Americans are more religious than our Supreme Court battles let on

By Kelsy Burke, Andrew Flores, Suzanna Krivulskaya, and Tyler Lefevor — July 7, 2023
(RNS) — Religion and queerness make strange bedfellows, but they are not as hostile as we may think.
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