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Sep 26, 2025
Every religion has rituals related to repentance.
Catholics enter private booths and confess their sins to priests. Jews focus throughout this holiday season...
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Sep 15, 2025
Delphine Collins, a 43-year-old preschool teacher, used to go to McDonald’s for breakfast before work. She’d always order the Big Breakfast — eggs, sausage and...
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Aug 5, 2025
The Catholic Church is trying to get influencers — women with fashion accounts and “hot priests” — to serve as its digital missionaries.
In a first, the...
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May 23, 2025
I had a particularly geriatric habit as a fourth grader: I set an analog alarm clock for 5:45 every morning. Without hitting snooze, I’d get up, pour myself a bowl of Special K...
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Apr 22, 2025
On Sundays, I used to stand in front of my Mormon congregation and declare that it all was true.
I’d climb the stairs to the pulpit and smooth my long skirt. I’d smile...
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Apr 21, 2025
Americans believe.
Most people are wary of the government, the future and even each other, but they still believe in astonishing possibilities. Almost all Americans — 92...
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Feb 26, 2025
As religion in America declined, experts administered last rites.
Churches were approaching “their twilight hour” as attendance fell, The Brookings Institution wrote...
