Seventy-six MillionIn this post, I continue exploring Pew's third Religion Landscape Survey. My focus will be on raw numbers and growth rates. I calculated the raw numbers of people using census data from 2007, 2014, and 2023 (only adults 18+) and mu...

This week, some of my content on Latina/o/x politics and religion appeared in different fora. I had a radio interview that aired last night (March 4), and a guest post at the Kettering Foundation's "From Many, We" blog series went live this morning.W...

New Landscape SurveyThe Pew Research Center released its third Religion Landscape Survey this week. It is a treasure trove of data that will take some time to dissect. Here are some of my topline takes. I promise to spend the next few weeks examining...

I’m processing, both mentally and numerically, the election results. Since data is scarce, I’m scouring the exit poll data. While these surveys can be overinterpreted, they also can provide some context. Amazingly, in an election that had a bunch of...

Last week, I read Hemant’s newsletter and learned that the Pew Research Center released a new report about the “nones.” I‘ve been reading the report and have many things to say, but today, I will focus on one small aspec...

Pride is almost over, but before it ends, it is an excellent time to remember that the LGBTQ+ community is an essential part of the secular community.According to the 2022 Cooperative Election Study, 11 percent of adults identify as gay, lesbian, bis...

The current direction of the GOP has been in my mind this week for reasons that have nothing to do with its exponentially growing list of potential 2024 standard-bearers. Instead, a few articles I read this week, alongside an interview I di...

A recent piece in Axios shows what many of us have known for a long time: Christians are overrepresented in Congress. For the most part, the extra Christians come at the expense of the nonreligious. Only 3.7% of the members of Congress have...

A recent piece in Axios shows what many of us have known for a long time: Christians are overrepresented in Congress. For the most part, the extra Christians come at the expense of the nonreligious. Only 3.7% of the members of Congress have...

Last week I addressed how polarization has impacted the Big Three religion cohorts in the Latinx population: Catholics, the nones, and evangélicos. Comparing the latest partisan identity data reported by Pew with the 2014 Pew...