Tag: Religion in America

There are two ways to measure which religion is the second biggest in each US state behind Christianity. Who’s right?

How one local Presbyterian church encourages people to “think local” and put down their spiritual roots close to home rather than shop for a bigger and better experience.

Kimberly Winston of Religion News Service reports on a U.S. House of Representatives bill proposing a prayer plaque at the World War II Memorial in

Think Progress: “[O]ur right to the free exercise of religion is co-equal to our right to life,” according to the campaign website of Ben Sasse,

The five justices of the U. S. Supreme Court who voted to permit sectarian prayers before public meetings failed to imagine how religious minorities experience

In the what’s-old-is-new-again-department, C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison are evangelicals have ditched the mega-church model and advocate small, community-oriented ministry focused on mission and worship in the context of human-scale relationships.

There’s a quiet, gentle backlash underway against the mass production of spiritual experience, writes Bob Smietana for Religion News Service: You can’t franchise the kingdom

Does your parish have a policy regarding guns at church? Congregations in Georgia are grappling with this issue after passage of a state measure allowing

It’s the first full day of spring and so it’s the start of “mud season” in Vermont. To celebrate we note that once again, the Gallup Poll has declared Vermont as the least religious in the nation. But might that make it be the most spiritual state in the country?