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Young people define ‘sacred moments’ broadly: From God to nature to relationships
By Adelle M. Banks — November 7, 2023
(RNS) — ‘Inviting young people beyond the traditional and typical provides room for them to experience something beyond the ordinary,’ a Springtide Research Institute report states.
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.
Donald Trump and the battering of civil religion
By John D. Carlson — January 19, 2018
(RNS) — American civil religion is the moral backbone of our body politic — a heritage of shared beliefs, stories, ideas, symbols and events that explains the American experience of self-government with reference to a moral order that transcends it.
Americans see more jingle, less Jesus in Christmas celebrations
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 13, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The survey captures how 'too many people think Christmas is about a mall and not a manger,' said Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College.
Are religious people more moral?
By Dimitris Xygalatas — October 25, 2017
(The Conversation) — Many might assume that religious commitment is a sign of virtue, or even that morality cannot exist without religion. Both of these assumptions, however, are problematic.
Religious leaders react to the violence in Charlottesville
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 15, 2017
(RNS) — Some religious leaders criticized President Trump's initial response denouncing hatred and violence 'on many sides,' while a few conservative evangelicals rushed to defend the president.
International basketball rule change allows players to wear religious headgear
By Alan Baldwin — May 4, 2017
(REUTERS) The new rule overturns a 20-year prohibition.
Religious leaders react to Trump’s orders on visitors and refugees
By Lauren Markoe — January 29, 2017
(RNS) The ban 'traumatizes refugees, most of whom are women and children, keeps families separated and punishes people who are themselves fleeing the terror we as a nation are rightly fighting to end,' said World Relief President Scott Arbeiter.
Highly religious people say they’re happier, too, survey finds
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — April 12, 2016
(RNS) Pew Research finds key similarities and surprising differences among the highly religious and those who are less so.
The US: One nation not quite under God
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 11, 2016
(RNS) Long viewed as the most religious developed nation, America is slipping toward secularism, like the rest of the West, a new study finds.
Israel fractures by faith on politics and society
By Lauren Markoe — March 8, 2016
(RNS) A new survey finds Israelis wrestling with the nation's identity. Most Jews there say it can be both Jewish and democratic. Most Israeli Muslims and Christians disagree.
‘Star Wars’: The return of the transcendent (COMMENTARY)
By Charles C. Camosy — December 18, 2015
(RNS) "The Force Awakens" gives us hope for the possibility of redemption and conversion.
Pew study: More Americans reject religion, but believers firm in faith
By Lauren Markoe — November 3, 2015
(RNS) Americans as a whole are growing less religious, but those who still consider themselves to belong to a religion are, on average, just as committed to their faiths as they were in the past.
Charitable giving to religious groups is down as philanthropy improves from the Great Recession
By Lauren Markoe — June 17, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) The religious sector received 31 percent of all charitable dollars in 2013, a proportion twice as high as the second-largest U.S. sector, education.
In mixed faith marriages, focus is on ‘values,’ not ‘beliefs’
By Kimberly Winston — June 9, 2014
(RNS) In 1950, about 20 percent of all U.S. marriages were interfaith. Today, that number is 45 percent.
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