spirituality

Americans are becoming less spiritual as well as less religious

By Mark Silk — December 11, 2023
(RNS) — But you'd never know it from the latest Pew survey.

America’s nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon

By Peter Smith — October 9, 2023
(AP) — The decades-long rise of the nones — a diverse, hard-to-summarize group — is one of the most talked about phenomena in U.S. religion.

When life gets boring

By Jeffrey Salkin — October 4, 2023
We live with the constant threat of meh. How can you deal with it?

Don’t erase yourself. Re-write yourself.

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 26, 2023
A fancy word that you've never heard before. A process that we all need.

Is it really a “happy New Year?”

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 24, 2023
Not to be the grinch who stole the High Holy Days, but...

How a grudge destroyed Jerusalem: a Tisha B’Av reflection

By Jeffrey Salkin — July 27, 2023
How much anger can you carry within your soul? Don't even try.

The note that I put into the Western Wall

By Jeffrey Salkin — July 5, 2023
(RNS) — Do I believe God lives in the Western Wall? No. Do I not believe it? Also, no. It’s complicated.

Smithsonian Folklife Festival on National Mall explores often-unfamiliar spirituality

By Adelle M. Banks — June 30, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The lead curator of the 'Creative Encounters' program hopes it will give the public a chance to 'pull back the curtain' on spiritual practices.

‘Rabbi, what happens after I die?’

By Jeffrey Salkin — June 23, 2023
(RNS) — If you never learned this in religious school, then (in Brooklynese) 'you was robbed.'

Is your career over?

By Jeffrey Salkin — June 20, 2023
Or, is the very idea of "career" outmoded? A podcast with Bruce Feiler -- on why so many Americans are looking for something higher and deeper.

Why people have trouble praying

By Jeffrey Salkin — June 6, 2023
Does your spiritual life need a GPS? Meet the master teacher who helped create it.

Can you see the face of a friend?

By Jeffrey Salkin — May 30, 2023
Social justice, kosher-style 101. Wrapped up in one poetic piece of Jewish law.

More Americans pray in their car than in a place of worship, survey finds

By Adelle M. Banks — May 4, 2023
(RNS) — A distinct majority of those who pray (87%) said they believed they’d received an answer to their prayers in the last 12 months.

The spirituality of a college reunion

By Jeffrey Salkin — October 14, 2022
A bunch of college friends. And then, someone tapped on a glass...

‘God is life,’ Rabbi Yonatan Neril on ecological conversion and the war in Ukraine

By Marika Proctor — August 19, 2022
(RNS) — Rabbi Yonatan Neril is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development — a Jerusalem-based nonprofit engaged in revealing the connection between religion and ecology worldwide.
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