Friendship, Faith and a New Year’s Resolution

I closed out 2022 by writing about how to make new friends. It seems fitting, then, that I’m finishing out 2023 by writing about the friends people already have. A new Pew Research Center analysis investigates the religious composition of Americans’ social groups and concludes that these groups are more religiously diverse than I assumed. Overall, 61% of U.S. adults said they have at least some friends who belong to a different faith than their own. “That includes 43% who say only some of their friends have the same religion they do and another 18% who say hardly any or none of their friends do,” Pew reported.