A study published by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues says that the number of people who claim no religious affiliation as grown. Most of these “nones” are people who believe in God and most had a religious affiliation earlier in life.
There has been much conversation recently on the future of seminaries. Katherine M Douglass and Jason Bruner, doctoral candidates at Princeton Theological Seminary, write in
Andrew Marr on BBC 4 discusses the nature of faith and belief with Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Holloway, Karen Armstrong and Helen Edmundson, who all live outside of their traditional faiths and in the agnostic middle ground.
Studies are appearing that reveal that there are significant numbers of people who are not only unaffiliated religiously but also don’t really care. Call them the not-spiritual-not-religious-not-interested.
Speaking from personal experience, there’s a great deal of commentary about religion made by scholars who don’t have any. While the lack of any personal
The historical Paul is being pulled — kicking and screaming — away from Christianity’s radical past and into Christianity’s Roman future.
The latest annual survey by the American Historical Association says that younger historians are more likely than older ones to turn their sights on faith issues.