Much has been made of the growing post-Christian sentiment among America’s youngest generation of adults. But how has this well-documented turn away from religion affected Millennials’ views of Christianity’s most sacred text? In a recent study among Millennials, conducted in partnership with American Bible Society and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Barna Group sought to discover how changing ideas about Christianity might be affecting perceptions of the Bible.

David Kinnaman, President of the Barna Group, calculates that 38% of Americans are “churchless.”

At the end of the nineteenth century, academics began to shift control of higher knowledge away from clerics and to professionals like themselves. This broad secularization was accompanied by a kind of privatization where churches retreated from public space, abandoning knowledge claims in political and cultural affairs. In the spiritual vacuum created by the naked public university, Christian study centers have started.

Marriage in America is in trouble. New data from Pew Research shows that barely half of adults in the U.S. are married, and if this trend continues, singles will soon make up the majority of the adult U.S. population. All of this coincides with record numbers of out-of-wedlock births, prompting the obvious question—what kind of relationships are couples choosing instead of marriage?

Mark Driscoll, the larger-than-life megachurch pastor who has been accused of plagiarism, bullying and an unhealthy ego that alienated his most devoted followers, resigned from his Seattle church Tuesday (Oct. 14).

Switzerland has become such a “suicide tourism” destination that in England the phrase “going to Switzerland” has come to mean committing assisted suicide.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected requests to review lower court decisions that overturned bans on same-sex marriage in five states: Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. David Masci, Senior Researcher at the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, analyzes the practical effects of that decision.

Russell Moore addresses the argument that it is hypocritical for a minister to oppose same sex marriage while marrying people who have been previously divorced.

“I no longer have any words to tell the people,” the local pastor says, with an overwhelming sense of sadness. “After all that has happened and all I have heard, I have no words left to give them.”

Despite a year’s worth of persuasion and a New York Times article that sparked widespead support this summer, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship has lost campus access in America’s largest university system because it requires student leaders to affirm Christian doctrines.