Listly by Martin Jimenez
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(RNS) — While megachurches often make headlines, most of the congregations in the United States are relatively small.
For women, having a seat at the table does not mean having a voice. Groundbreaking BYU research shows what it takes for a woman to truly be heard.
Millennials: If you can’t stay at home for others, do it for yourselves.
NEW YORK (AP) — Liam Elkind's big heart and his break from college was a highlight of 83-year-old Carol Sterling's week. The retired arts administrator has been sheltering at home during the...
New C.D.C. data shows that nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were age 20 to 54. But the risk of dying was significantly higher in older people.
For some people, a $50 plane ticket is too good a deal to pass up, even during a pandemic.
Recent research on Generation Z holds some good news for people worried about the fate of organized religion
For the last decade, Verlon Fosner and his church have been hosting weekly dinner gatherings as the flagship of their church family life and mission. These Community Dinners have become part of a movement known as Dinner Church.
Three reasons the narrative of rapid secularization is incomplete.
Now it’s war: Gen Z has finally snapped over climate change and financial inequality.
Nick’s tongue would appear at the corner of his mouth whenever he filled in his worksheet.
“Go and make disciples of all 18- to 34-year-olds within a 10-mile radius who prefer Chick-fil-A to Popeyes.”
Gen Z-ers and millennials have been called lazy and entitled. Could they, instead, be among the first to understand the proper role of work in life?
When it comes to raising up the next generation of leaders in the Christian Reformed Church, said Dr. Mary Hulst, we need to be willing to have frank conversations about money, sex, and power.
Loneliness can be helpful, unless it becomes chronic.
You’ve seen us, with our man-buns and wrist-tattoos. We’ve lurked in the corners of your church coffee-shops: girls with half their hair buzzed away, boys with blooming beards. We come after college…
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Fewer than two decades ago, L.G.B.T. youth had a few mainstream labels to understand their identities. Today, the terminology is far more extensive.
SEATTLE (RNS) — Early in this century, the academic center that I direct undertook a research project to examine religion and regionalism in American public life. Of the eight regions we divided the country into, the most distinctive was the Pacific Northwest — Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
A project called Nuns and Nones moved religion-free millennials into a convent.
Weak ties can offer strong rewards.
The cultural roots of our political problems.
Should pastors wear $5,000 sneakers? There’s been soul-searching recently over materialism in houses of worship.
Pope Francis’post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation dedicated to Young People and to the entire People of God, “Christus vivit”, the result of the 15th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment [3 to 28 October 2018], 25 March 2019