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1 week ago | 
religionunplugged.com | Paul Prather
(OPINION) On Friday, I spent 30 minutes or so on the phone getting acquainted with the editor-in-chief of Rapt, an interdenominational online Christian magazine based on the West Coast. He’d contacted me because he’d read my columns and liked them, which I found flattering, of course. He turned out to be a fascinating guy: a former Wall Street lawyer and Silicon Valley venture capitalist who decided that sort of life wasn’t fulfilling him anymore.
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2 weeks ago | 
arkansasonline.com | Paul Prather
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Last week, I spent 30 minutes or so on the phone getting acquainted with the editor-in-chief of Rapt, an interdenominational online Christian magazine based on the West Coast. (See: tinyurl.com/yc7xr5ch)He'd contacted me because he'd read my columns and liked them, which I found flattering, of course.
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3 weeks ago | 
arkansasonline.com | Paul Prather
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. This column originally appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader on April 9, 2016.
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3 weeks ago | 
religionunplugged.com | Paul Prather
(OPINION) Over the past few years, I’ve written occasionally about a well-documented drop in church attendance and affiliation among Americans. There are indications that free-fall may have stabilized. In February, the Pew Research Center released its third Religious Landscape Study, a mammoth project that over 17 years has sampled more than 35,000 randomly selected respondents each time it’s been conducted.
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4 weeks ago | 
arkansasonline.com | Paul Prather
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Over the past few years I've written occasionally about a well-documented drop in church attendance and affiliation among Americans.
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1 month ago | 
kentucky.com | Paul Prather
AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroomPew data shows Christian affiliation has stabilized at around 62% since 2019. Religiously unaffiliated share has plateaued at 29% after years of growth. Demographic shifts may renew church decline as older, devout generations pass. Over the past few years I’ve written occasionally about a well-documented drop in church attendance and affiliation among Americans. There are indications that free-fall may have stabilized.
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1 month ago | 
arkansasonline.com | Paul Prather
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. This column originally appeared in the Aug. 14, 2019 edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader.
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1 month ago | 
religionunplugged.com | Paul Prather
(OPINION) Since Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, became the first American elected as pope, I’ve been racking my mind trying to find something semi-intelligent to write about this momentous event. What I’ve come up with is, “Congratulations to the new Pope Leo XIV.”Not even semi-intelligent, that. Let me assure you, I love the Roman Catholic Church and have a host of Catholic friends. I’m an amateur student of Catholic mysticism.
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1 month ago | 
hanfordsentinel.com | Paul Prather
Since Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, became the first American elected as pope, I’ve been racking my mind trying to find something semi-intelligent to write about this momentous event. What I’ve come up with is, “Congratulations to the new Pope Leo XIV.”Not even semi-intelligent, that. Let me assure you, I love the Roman Catholic Church and have a host of Catholic friends. I’m an amateur student of Catholic mysticism.
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1 month ago | 
kentucky.com | Paul Prather
Since Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, became the first American elected as pope, I’ve been racking my mind trying to find something semi-intelligent to write about this momentous event. What I’ve come up with is, “Congratulations to the new Pope Leo XIV.”Not even semi-intelligent, that. Let me assure you, I love the Roman Catholic Church and have a host of Catholic friends. I’m an amateur student of Catholic mysticism.
