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Church without God: How secular congregations fill a need for some nonreligious Americans

  • Written by Jacqui Frost, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University
imageSunday Assembly is one of the larger secular congregations aiming to provide community and ritual for nonreligious people. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Shared testimonies, collective singing, silent meditation and baptism rituals – these are all activities you might find at a Christian church service on a Sunday morning in the United States. But what...

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