Pew
Amy Schumer is more Jewish than she thinks
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 9, 2022
(RNS) — How do I know? I was her rabbi.
Study: Trump expanded evangelical support in 2020, but Biden gained with other white Christians
By Jack Jenkins — July 2, 2021
(RNS) — Biden chipped away at Trump's support among white Catholics and white non-evangelical Protestants and ran up the score among the religiously unaffiliated.
My religious knowledge — and yours
By Mark Silk — July 25, 2019
(RNS) — Both could stand some improvement.
Catholic bishops and laypeople may live in different news bubbles
By Jack Jenkins — June 7, 2019
(RNS) — Only 4% of bishops named MSNBC as their preferred news station, compared to 28% of Catholics overall who listed it as a source for information about government and politics.
Black men reverse the gender split on religion, research shows
By Adelle M. Banks — September 27, 2018
(RNS) — African-American men are equally as likely as Hispanic women to be what Pew considers 'highly religious,' so they are tied as the second-most religious group.
Christians outnumber Muslim refugees to US in last 15 years
By Adelle M. Banks — October 12, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — In the past decade and a half, 46 percent of refugees who came to America were Christian, compared with 33 percent who were Muslim.
Are smart Jews too cool for shul?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 28, 2017
Maybe if we stopped dumbing Judaism down.....?
More education means less religious commitment — unless you’re Christian
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 26, 2017
(RNS) There are some exceptions to the popular thought that the more educated Americans are, they less religious they will be, according to a new analysis by Pew Research Center.
Does American religion have a prayer?
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 26, 2016
Religion is in trouble. Emphasize memory, rather than belief.
Who cares about Passover anymore?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 19, 2016
Many Jews are going to be including rice and beans in their Passover diets. The real question is: What does Passover mean to many American Jews?
Have Americans really changed their minds on same-sex marriage? (COMMENTARY)
By R. Albert Mohler Jr. — November 3, 2015
(RNS) I suspect that the support for same-sex marriage is evidence of what millions of Americans think they are supposed to say, rather than what they really believe.
2014: The top stories in atheism
By Chris Stedman — December 22, 2014
From the popularity of 'Cosmos' on Fox-TV to the Roku launch of 'Atheist TV', from open atheist James Woods's inspiring congressional campaign to Richard Dawkins's less-than-inspiring tweets, atheists made headlines all year.
Atheists are disliked — but new data shows interfaith dialogue can help
By Chris Stedman — July 21, 2014
Atheists are rightfully concerned about stigma. Pew's latest poll is evidence that we've got some ground to cover before we're socially accepted—and we should consider interfaith dialogue as a means of doing so.
Outside the box: 3 ways people misidentify the ‘Nones’
By Chris Stedman — April 22, 2014
In an effort to understand the growing exodus from organized religion among Americans, many people get some things about the religiously unaffiliated (or "Nones") wrong. Here are three of them.
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