On this Sunday today’s read is from Emma Camp, an assistant editor at Reason magazine. Here’s a portion:

Do you have to believe in God to go to church? I used to think so.

Americans are less likely than ever to attend religious services. According to one recent Gallup poll, just 30 percent of U.S. adults attend religious services weekly or nearly weekly—down from 42 percent in the early 2000s.

At a time when Americans—especially young Americans—are more atomized than ever, having not just individual friends but a real community is increasingly difficult. As the Gen-Z writer Rona Wang humorously put it, “[S]ocial life after college is just texting people to ‘get coffee’ a few times a month & then spending $600 to attend someone’s wedding.”

This kind of individual social interaction can be worthwhile, but it can’t replicate the interconnectedness provided by formalized community groups.

There’s more.

Read it all here.