The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well
Television's best show explores faith, family ,identity, and the spectre of Reagan's ‘evil empire'
View Article2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of...
Over the last year or two, LGBTQ issues have erupted with increasing frequency at evangelical...
View ArticleThe Man in the Red Dress: My Unlikely Friendship with Cardinal Francis George
From my vantage point across the aisle and a few rows back, I studied Cardinal...
View ArticleHicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm
Last November, I returned to my family’s farm in New Hampshire to celebrate Thanksgiving and...
View ArticleMinistries of Presence: A Report from Nepal
American Christians in earthquake-ravaged Nepal—but not evangelism as usual.
View ArticleGoing Negative: Traditionalist Churches Gang Up on ‘Progressive Christianity’...
Hating on other Christians will surely drive new members into our congregation.
View ArticleWhat the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience
Having spent most of the last two years in conversation with Nones, seekers, doubters, and...
View ArticleCritiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of...
The terrain is indeed shifting as the latest Pew survey results suggest, but it’s not...
View ArticleSwimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What...
If religious kitsch is a guilty pleasure, one of my favorite indulgences is a graphic...
View ArticleSimple Questions: The Why, What, and How of Changing American Christianities
Dear friends and colleagues on the godbeat: You’ve heard it before: liberal churches are dying...
View ArticleAmerican Religion By the Numbers: A Pew Survey Roundup
SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE: RELIGIOUS (NON) AFFILIATION MIGHT NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS...
View ArticleTo Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace
“Comfort me.” “COMFORT ME.” “COMFORT ME! COMFORT ME!! COMFORT ME!!!” Bono is standing at the...
View ArticleTransitions: Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Identity, and Christians Behaving Badly...
Emma Green has a solid piece at The Atlantic detailing religious reaction to Caitlyn Jenner’s...
View ArticleSeattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster...
Editor’s Note: Among the trends that bear watching throughout America’s evolving Christian landscapes is a holistic rethinking...
View ArticleWhy Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism’s Tipping Point
That crashing sound you heard Monday morning was waves of change breaching the levees of the evangelical...
View ArticleThe ‘Charlie Charlie Challenge’ and Teenage Yearning for Supernatural Encounters
In May, four girls at a Colombian high school experienced a supernatural encounter so profound...
View ArticleData-Mining Denominations: Same-Sex Marriage Edition
We’re running out of Mondays before the Supreme Court hands down its ruling on the...
View ArticleThe Accidental Worshiper: Following the Music
This is the first in a series—part of an ongoing RD initiative focused on the changing face...
View ArticleThe Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia
My childhood home was equidistant between two of the Grateful Dead’s regular Bay Area venues:...
View ArticleData-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts
If you’ve been following the story of Christianity in the United States with any degree of...
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