This four-week class, grounded in the insights and research is designed to help Christian leaders understand the culture, motivations, and spiritual imaginations of the nones—so you can minister in ways that are informed, compassionate, and faithful.

There are now 100 million Americans — broadly categorized as the Nones — who seem to have left organized religion entirely. Or have they?

The memorial service for Charlie Kirk focused Americans’ attention on the intersection of religion and politics, particularly among Christians and Republicans.

The sentence I have heard with increasing regularity lately is, “I have a lot of religious trauma.” That sentiment is often coupled with an individual telling me that they struggle with the idea of religion, but they still feel like they are deeply spiritual.

Join project leads Ryan Burge and Tony Jones as they partner with Homebrewed Christianity’s Tripp Fuller for an 8-week class on The Nones.

About 100 million people in the U.S. say they have no religious faith, but a new survey paints a more complicated picture.

As I like to tell my graduate students, there’s nothing simple about the social world. The internet is full of clickbait articles promising three simple tricks to increase your income or one easy hack for a better night’s sleep. There are no such shortcuts, however, in academic social science. 

Since 1988, the General Social Survey has been asking Americans of different ages what they believe about God. For decades, the answer did not change much. Around 70 percent of members of the Silent Generation said that they “know God really exists” and “have no doubts about it.”

Well-educated and well-to-do Americans are more likely to attend religious services, but there are ways to make congregations more diverse and democratic

One of the most significant shifts in American politics and religion just took place over the past decade and it barely got any notice: the share of Americans who associate with religion dropped by 11 points.

It's been a turbulent few months for the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC is the largest evangelical institution in America, representing 47,000 churches and about 14 million members.

As a pastor who is also a professor of social science, I am often asked by parents of teenagers who were raised in a religious environment how their son or daughter can maintain their faith when they go off to some large state university or private liberal-arts college. Many parents seem to believe that as soon as their child walks into a freshman class, they will throw out their Bibles and pick up Nietzsche.