UNDERNEWS: Religion

2021

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

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

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