Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community who grew up in ultra-religious households and later distanced themselves from faith to ...

People in the U.S. are leaving and switching faith traditions in large numbers. The idea of “religious churning” is very common in America, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research ...

In the new Religious Landscape Study (RLS), nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults who are currently married (74%) say they have the same religion as their spouse, a similar share as in the 2014 RLS (75 ...

LGBTQ Nation asked 2 pollsters and 2 leaders of non-religious organizations. Their answers are eye-opening.

The AI apocalypse religion is no longer fringe. From Pew's 2025 data to AI churches, explore why fear of AI is turning into ...

This Pew Research Center report summarizes the latest trends in American religion and takes a close look at what is happening with religion among young adults. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center ...

In March, the Public Religion Research Institute released a report examining the common phenomenon of “religious churn” in the United States: people leaving the religion in which they were raised.

New numbers released by the Pew Research Center show that LGBTQ+ people are a lot less likely to be religious than their non-LGBTQ+ counterparts. While this statement is unlikely to shock many readers ...

A new study led by University of Rochester psychologist Miron Zuckerman has, by some accounts, decisively proven that atheists are more intelligent than religious people. Combining and standardizing ...

This article was co-authored with Dr. Nick Kerry, a social science researcher at the University of Vienna. For decades, psychologists have observed a consistent pattern: religious people tend to ...