Matter of Opinion · New York Times Opinion
We’re More Secular Than Ever. How’s That Going?
February 21, 2025·44 min·3 clips
There is embarrassment in journalism about saying plainly: there probably is a God.
As heard by us
A careful discussion of faith, pluralism, and whether secular ease is as stable as it seems.
Matter of Opinion turns to religious faith through Ross Douthat's book Believe, Why Everyone Should Be Religious. The panel asks a hard question: in the U.S., does less religion actually leave people with less stability, or just a different kind of strain?
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You want a serious conversation about religion's public and private return, anchored in a pluralist moment.
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