Unaffiliated & Nones
Why the posting of the Ten Commandments is wrong
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 20, 2024
(RNS) — How could a rabbi criticize the Ten Commandments? Just watch me.
New ‘Peace Starts with Me’ Podcast poses the question of how to bring peace to the nation and the world
By RNS Press Release Distribution Service — June 20, 2024
How Christian nationalism is going under the radar in this election
By Paul A. Djupe — June 20, 2024
(RNS) — As the nonreligious population grows, many Americans are socially insulated from crucial political realities.
Texas megachurch pastor resigns after woman says he sexually abused her in the 1980s
By Jamie Stengle — June 20, 2024
DALLAS (AP) — Gateway Church's board of elders said in a statement that they'd accepted the resignation of Robert Morris, the church's senior pastor and founder.
Mercy triumphs over unspeakable evil in true story about tragic kidnap, murder of 18-year-old Amish woman
By RNS Press Release Distribution Service — June 20, 2024
Defendant in Vatican trial takes case to UN, accuses pope of violating his rights with surveillance
By Nicole Winfield — June 20, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Raffaele Mincione, a London-based financier, submitted a complaint last week to the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights via a special procedure that allows individuals or groups to provide the U.N. with information about alleged rights violations in countries or institutions.
New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
By Sara Cline — June 20, 2024
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The legislation that Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.
Hundreds died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid intense heat, officials say
By Samy Magdy — June 20, 2024
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia has not commented on the death toll amid the heat during the pilgrimage, required of every able Muslim once in their life, nor offered any causes for those who died. However, hundreds of people had lined up at the Emergency Complex in Al-Muaisem neighborhood in Mecca, trying to get information about their missing family members.
With world’s highest rates of religiously unaffiliated, East Asia remains spiritually vibrant
By Chloë-Arizona Fodor — June 17, 2024
(RNS) — While many East Asians do not identify with a religion, they continue to hold religious or spiritual beliefs in unseen beings, venerate ancestors’ spirits and engage in ritual practices, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center.
Have the nones jumped the shark? Maybe.
By Bob Smietana — May 22, 2024
(RNS) — Since the mid-2000s, the nones — Americans who claim no religion — have been the fastest-growing segment of the religious landscape. But that rapid growth may be slowing.
The number of religious ‘nones’ has soared, but not the number of atheists – and as social scientists, we wanted to know why
By Katie Corcoran and Christopher P. Scheitle — May 6, 2024
(The Conversation) — Social factors, from wealth to politics, may shape whether people who do not believe in God identify as an atheist.
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.'
