Religion 2019 predictions
The Rev. Grace Ji-Sun Kim: A multifaith movement will push to address climate change
By — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. Climate change is happening right before our eyes. While we live in partial ignorance of the constant changes in the world around us, it is impossible to ignore […]
Simran Jeet Singh: American Sikhs will begin to conquer the skeletons in their closet
By Simran Jeet Singh — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. In 2019, Sikhs will make a concerted effort to address major issues within the community that have been ignored for far too long. Many of these issues comport […]
The Rev. David Gushee: Get ready for a new, post-white evangelicalism
By David P. Gushee — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. I predict that in 2019 post-white evangelicalism will show signs of finding its footing. This will look like a whole lot of people trying to create new vision, […]
The Rev. Tom Reese: Catholics will loosen up on clerical celibacy — but for real this time
By Thomas Reese — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. For 2018, I predicted that “This is the year the Catholic Church will get serious about discussing the possibility of married priests.” I guess I was a year […]
John Gehring: Power to the Catholic laypeople
By John Gehring — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. As the clergy abuse crisis continues to shake the foundations of the Catholic Church, 2019 will be the Year of the Laity. Catholics in the pews are angry, […]
Ahmad Greene-Hayes: Progressives of faith will have to start walking the talk
By — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. As a black scholar of religion and a leftist, my prediction is unapologetically a prophetic lament in the spirit of the African-American prophetic tradition. Indeed, as anti-black racism, […]
Jana Riess: Mormon Church will loosen institutional control, with some notable exceptions
By Jana Riess — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. I predict that 2019 for Mormons — meaning, for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — will be a year of many incremental and […]
Dalia Fahmy: Religion gets even more political around the world
By — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. As we see 2018 come to a close with great flux and uncertainty, 2019 stands to usher in more of the same unpredictability. However, on the religious front, […]
Mark Silk: Looking for a solution to the abuse crisis?
By Mark Silk — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. The most surprising religion story of 2018 was the return of the Catholic abuse scandal at a full-blast level not seen in this country since 2002-2003. What’s different […]
Aminta Kilawan-Narine: A year of fearless fights for justice
By — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. In 2019, I predict that people of faith all over the world will rise up to fight for justice, to use any positions of privilege to give a […]
Meira Neggaz: Expect Muslim political engagement to keep on the rise
By — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. Everyone knows American Muslims hit a major milestone this year with the elections of the first two Muslim women in Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. But they […]
The Rev. Johnnie Moore: Expect new alliances and major transitions for traditional institutions
By Johnnie Moore — December 20, 2018
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. The digital age has produced the single greatest social experiment in human history, which has often behaved with the qualities of religion. And that experiment has broken beyond […]
Bishop Karen Oliveto: The United Methodist Church will emerge as united and uniting
By — December 20, 2018
In 2019, United Methodist will engage our theological sources of scripture, tradition, experience and reason to recognize that whether you are conservative or progressive, straight or LGBTQ, immigrant or native-born, farmer or urbanite, cisgender or transgender, young or old, the 1 percent or the 99 percent, differently abled or the temporarily abled, living in North America […]
Bradley Onishi: The “exvangelical” movement will continue to grow
By — December 20, 2018
Last year for this feature, David Gushee predicted a crossroads for white evangelicals and their support for Trump. He was right to think that most white evangelicals would remain loyal to Trump even in the face of his ongoing personal and political failings. This means that in order to remain part of white evangelical culture […]
Archbishop Joseph D’Souza: All eyes on South Asia, where religious nationalism is reaching a fever pitch
By — December 20, 2018
The world needs to pay close attention to South Asia in 2019. The rise of religious nationalism is already threatening freedom of expression and belief for religious minorities, and with general elections in South Asia next year, tensions are bound to get higher. In countries such as India, which has the world’s largest Hindu population […]
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