UNDERNEWS: Religion

2021

America's religious breakdown
Americans continue to have favorable views of Pope Francis
More churches closing than opening
Churches Are Closing. The Challenge for Local Governments
More Than a Quarter of Evangelicals Believe QAnon

2019

Non religious outnumber Catholics or evangelicals
Four in ten millennials now say they are religiously unaffiliated

2018

Percentage of evangelicals in America isn't changing

One in five Americans say they have no religion

New England least religious; Southwest most

Massive Soutern Baptist sex crimes in Texas

Pope goes homophobic

Decline of religion in England

Thousands of children abused by priests in Germany

Facts about American Catholics

Young around the world are leaving religion

T he 12 worst ideas organized religion has unleashed on the world

Word: How to relate to an fundamentalist

2017

Party registration of religous leaders by faith

71% of Americans describe themselves as Christian but 91% of Congressmembers do. Religiously unaffiliated Americans are 23% but only 0.2% in Congress.

The Episcopal Church in the United States says average Sunday worship attendance at its churches declined 26 percent between 2005 and 2015.

Percentage of Americans who attend church regularly . . . by state

Report blames pedophile priests on celibacy and confession

Federal court rules against government body allowing only Christian invocations

Confessions of a Seventh Day Agnostic

ESSAYS

BACK TO TOP

SEVENTH DAY AGNOSTICS ARISE

WHO OWNS FAITH & VALUES?

THE END OF COOL PREACHERS

A CONVERSATION WITH GOD

SEPARATING FAITH & REALITY

FALSE FAITH VS LOUSY WORKS

PSALM OF THE FAST LANE

THE FIGHT THAT DOESN'T MATTER

WHAT I LEARNED AS A PART JEW

GENERAL FOLLOWS ONGOING STRATEGIC VISION OF JESUS

LINKS

CATHOLIC

CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE

Tom Lehrer's Vatican Rag

LUTHERAN

Boarding announcement for Lutheran Airlines

SECULAR

ATHEISTS AND AGNOSTICS BY COUNTRY

AGNOSTICISM

AGNOSTIC RESOURCE SITE

AMERICAN ATHEISTS

AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSN

AMERICANS FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE

FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION

GODLESS AMERICANS

OPENLY SECULAR

POSITIVE ATHEISM

SECULAR COALITION

SECULAR WEB

THEOCRACY WATCH

TOP COUNTRIES FOR ATHEISTS & AGNOSTICS

Civil rights leader Julius Hobson on what was going to happen when he died

EVANGELICALISM

FIFTEEN ANSWERS TO CREATIONIST NONSENSE

FRIENDS

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMM

FRIENDS COMMITTE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION

JUDAISM

JEWS ON FIRST

JEWS FOR PEACE IN PALESTINE & ISRAEL

JEWISH UNITY FOR A JUST PEACE

JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE

JEWISH VOICES AGAINST THE OCCUPATION

TIME LINE OF JUDAISM

MUSLIM

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MUSLIMS

PEACE

CHRISTIAN PEACEMAKER TEAMS

COUNCIL ON AMERICAN - ISLAMIC RELATIONS

MUSLIM PEACE FELLOWSHIP

WITNESS FOR PEACE

SCIENTOLOGY

INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY

THEOCRACY

THEOCRACY WATCH

WEB SITES

BELIEFORAMA

BELIEF NET

OTHER

PROGRESSIVE RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP

SOJOURNERS

WHO RECEIVES FAITH-BASED GRANTS

ABOUT THE REVIEW

Regularly ahead of the curve, the Review has opposed federal drug policy for nearly 50 years, was a lonely media voice against the massive freeways planned for Washington, was an early advocate of bikeways and light rail, and helped spur the creation of the DC Statehood Party and the national Green Party,

In November 1990 it devoted an entire issue to the ecologically sound city and how to develop it. The article was republished widely.

Even before Clinton's nomination we exposed Arkansas political scandals that would later become major issues. .

We reported on NSA monitoring of U.S. phone calls in the 1990s, years before it became a major media story.

In 2003 editor Sam Smith wrote an article for Harper's comprised entirely of falsehoods about Iraq by Bush administration officials.

The Review started a web edition in 1995 when there were only 27,000 web sites worldwide. Today there are over 170 million active sites.

In 1987 we ran an article on AIDS. It was the first year that more than 1,000 men died of the disease.

In the 1980s, Thomas S Martin predicted in the Review that "Yugoslavia will eventually break up" and that "a challenge to the centralized soviet state" would occur as a result of devolutionary trends. Both happened.

In the 1970s we published a first person account of a then illegal abortion.

In 1971 we published our first article in support of single payer universal health care

In 1970, we ran a two part series on gay liberation.

in 1965 we called for the end of the draft.

In the 1960s we proposed community policing

ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

A truly independent journalist with his feet firmly grounded in the reality of neighborhoods and everyday people. -- Patrick Mazza, Progressive Populist

A truly original voice in American journalism: humorous and plain spoken and filled with common sense -- Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader

Inimitable -- Mother Jones Magazine

Sam's a cynical cat -- Marion Barry

Sam's one of the few independent voices left. The press today is either extreme or special interest or else just establishment, an extension of the corporate spirit -- Eugene McCarthy,

One of a small group of whites with whom many blacks would trust their political lives - Chuck Stone, Washingtonian.

A reputation for wit, intelligence and anger. -- Claude Lewis, Chicago Tribune

Smith is an island of reason and information in a sea of narcissistic blather. -- City Paper, Washington

Whatever the debate, the Review's sharp critiques encourage us to look out our window, notice and act upon what we see, and also to look further -- to the rest of the country and globe -- to see how the organized big world interacts with our more spontaneous small worlds. - Utne Reader

Religion

America's religious breakdownAmericans continue to have favorable views of Pope FrancisMore churches closing than opening Churches Are Closing. The Challenge for Local GovernmentsMore Than a Quarter of Evangelicals Believe QAnon

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America's religious breakdown
Americans continue to have favorable views of Pope Francis
More churches closing than opening
Churches Are Closing. The Challenge for Local Governments
More Than a Quarter of Evangelicals Believe QAnon