(RNS) — When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many Americans lost the habit of churchgoing after almost every church in the country closed down their in-person services and shifted online. But did some of them give up on God? Sociologists like Michael Hout want to know. Hout, a professor of sociology […]
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(RNS) — A decennial examine of U.S. religious life demonstrates what quite a few demographers and other folks have prolonged identified: Participation in congregational companies has not held up with overall population growth. Nonetheless, religious groups drawing substantial figures of immigrants have seen regular expansion. The U.S. Faith Census, done […]
(RNS) — I keep in mind a dialogue I had, several years in the past, with a faithful member of my synagogue. The subject matter turned to interreligious affairs, and my congregant explained: “Jews never feel in Jesus Christians do. What is the massive deal?” I politely instructed to him […]
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A team of prominent Christian leaders, which includes the heads of main denominations, say they submitted a letter previously this 12 months to the Residence choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, urging members to look at Christian nationalism and arguing the ideology […]
The public will have a prospect to assist the Crozet Baptist Church Share the Blessing mission with donations Saturday, Nov.5. Submitted photo. St. Paul’s Explores Overall health and Spirituality There is a variation among therapeutic and curing, said Rev. Richard Lord, and the Gospels hardly ever estimate Christ as boasting […]
(RNS) — In 2016, Indiana passed laws that assumes a fetus is a man or woman. Condition legislation now calls for medical services to bury or cremate any fetal tissue in their possession, as opposed to disposing of it by regular health care means. The female who underwent the miscarriage […]