Waking up in the dead of winter is the hardest, says Linda Mercadante at 3:12 a.m., sitting in her office at the Plain Dealer distribution depot on Van Epps Road in Brooklyn Heights. "When it's ...

An ideology is sweeping the nation, and one researcher says it’s more prevalent than most people realize. Increasingly more people, especially youth, claim to be “spiritual but not religious.” And the ...

On the surface, it might not appear that the yoga teacher in Boulder, Colo., has much of anything in common with the blue-collar worker in central Ohio. Yet both consider themselves "spiritual but not ...

As more and more Americans turn away from organized religion, some researchers are concerned about the possible demise of the soup kitchens, medical facilities and other social services that faith ...

The past two decades have seen rising numbers of the religiously unaffiliated, who identify as “Spiritual But Not Religious” (SBNRs). Mercadante, professor of theology at the Methodist Theological ...

Study found that those who maintain their religion in college were twice as likely to have a close personal friendship with an adult inside the church For Liberty University senior Sarah Zins, ...

When Mercadante misses the neighborhood where she grew up, she watches reruns of The Sopranos. Newark's Bloomfield Avenue, site of numerous scenes in the TV series, was where her Italian immigrant ...