American Religion
The American social scientist joins us to assess what’s happening in American religious culture as the pandemic continues to take its toll.
How ecumenical should prayer in Congress be?
Are opponents of the greeting proud Jews, or simply anti-religious?
It’s what the Puritans did.
While displaying ignorance of Judaism.
“This is the day that the Lord made; we shall exult and rejoice in it.”
No handmaids they.
When the president became ill, liberal secularists saw the Hand of God.
The strange new religion of the self.
The intense spiritual hunger of the woke.
Enterprising divinity-school graduates offer new rituals for shapeless workdays.
Religious zeal, directed at the Jews.
It’s an enigma that’s vexed demographers for 40 years. The answer turns out not to be natural disasters or pandemics, or even economics, but something deeper: a decline in religion.
To the believer, the free exercise of religion is a pervasive thing—an identity, not just an idea.