One of the most contentious issues in American religion is the question of sexuality and LGBT rights. It divides denominations. It causes churches to split. For many, the issue is a litmus test ...

A new book explores how religion, once at the core of American higher education, made its way to the margins of campus life.

WHAT IS a shepherd without a flock? Many of America’s pastors may soon have to answer. In 2014, 3,700 Protestant churches closed, by 2019 that figure was 4,500, according to Lifeway Research, a ...

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

F OR DECADES America’s fastest-growing religious affiliation was no religion at all. In 1990 just 5% of Americans said they were atheists, agnostics or believed in “nothing in particular”. By 2019 ...

In short, in America, minority religions have tended to move to the mean over time and become, in important ways, more or less like everyone else. (There are exceptions, ...

Two writers draw together the data and connect the dots, finding the long-running, indisputable and inconvenient truth about organized religion. 2 books reach same conclusion on organized religion ...

Civil religion involves beliefs (but no formal creed), events that seem to reveal God’s purposes (most notably the American Revolution and the Civil War), prophets (especially Washington ...