The nones have actually altered school pastors’ tasks– and made them more intriguing
(RNS)-- Over the last years, college schools throughout the U.S. have actually seen an increase in the variety of trainees who recognize as "nones," a classification developed by pollsters and demographers to explain that mix of trainees who recognize themselves as atheists, agnostics or "absolutely nothing in specific." According to the Pew Research Center in 2023, about 28% of U.S. grownups are consistently unaffiliated.
More than 50% of the 1,000 approximately trainees on the school I act as pastor recognize as nones-- a minimum of on package they inspected when inquired about their religious beliefs or spirituality when they requested admission. We're not an uncommon school in this regard, as lots of others in the U.S. share a comparable figure.
In the days before the increase of the n...