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Gallup poll: More than half of Americans rarely go to church
By Bob Smietana — March 25, 2024
(RNS) — The percentage of Americans who never attend services outnumbers those who go every week, according to a new Gallup report.
The nones have changed campus chaplains’ jobs — and made them more interesting
By Lyn Pace — March 5, 2024
(RNS) — All students, not just Christians, come talk to me about class and life in general.
Nuns in a time of nones: The winding path to today’s religious vocations
By Elizabeth E. Evans — February 29, 2024
(RNS) — From 2020 to 2022, more than 900 women and men entered religious life. They all took their own, sometimes circuitous routes to get there.
Who are the ‘nones’? New Pew study debunks myths about America’s nonreligious.
By Kathryn Post — January 24, 2024
(RNS) — 'Today, the ‘nones’ kind of look like everybody else,' said sociologist Ryan Cragun. 'At some level, we're saying, hey, actually, this is just your neighbor.'
RNS reporters look ahead to the big religion stories they expect in 2024
By RNS staff — December 30, 2023
(RNS) — From papal reforms to psychedelics to presidential elections, here are the big religion stories RNS reporters anticipate this coming year.
Church for ‘nones’: Meet the anti-dogma spiritual collectives emerging across the US
By Kathryn Post — December 20, 2023
ATLANTA (RNS) — These spiritual communities discard doctrine, prefer questions over answers and have no intention of converting anybody to anything.
Americans are becoming less spiritual as well as less religious
By Mark Silk — December 11, 2023
(RNS) — But you'd never know it from the latest Pew survey.
Is religion good for you? The answer is complicated, new global Gallup report finds.
By Bob Smietana — October 10, 2023
(RNS) — A review of 10 years of global polling looks at the complicated connection between spirituality and health.
America’s nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon
By Peter Smith — October 9, 2023
(AP) — The decades-long rise of the nones — a diverse, hard-to-summarize group — is one of the most talked about phenomena in U.S. religion.
In chic Soho, a Hindu temple offers itself as a spiritual oasis
By Richa Karmarkar — September 19, 2023
(RNS) — This weekend, members of the Broome Street Hindu temple in Soho will go to the banks of the Hudson River to perform the visarjan ritual of Ganesh Chaturthi. For some New Yorkers, it will be the first time participating in distinctly Hindu practices.
Why do I still go to church? It’s a good question.
By Amy Julia Becker — September 18, 2023
(RNS) — There's more to it than community or spirituality or even wanting to raise my kids right.
REM was right. We are “losing our religion.”
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 18, 2023
Has religion failed us, or have we failed religion? A century old book contains an answer to our spiritual emptiness.
Religious leaders without religion: How humanist, atheist and spiritual-but-not-religious chaplains tend to patients’ needs
By Amy Lawton — September 8, 2023
(The Conversation) — As more Americans step away from organized religion, so do more chaplains – but they are prepared to offer spiritual care regardless of a patient’s beliefs.
‘The Great Dechurching’ explores America’s religious exodus
By Bob Smietana — September 7, 2023
(RNS) — A new study looks at why millions of Americans left church — and what might bring them back.
Bringing light without God: Humanist chaplain Anthony Cruz Pantojas
By Joshua Stanton and Benjamin Spratt — June 28, 2023
(RNS) — As colleges move to serve the 35% of millennials and 40% of Gen Z who say they are religiously unaffiliated, the number of humanist chaplains is growing.
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