Media

Explore Some of Dr. Linda Mercadante's Presentations

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Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto

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Media Interviews

• "One in four Americans identify as Nones. Why are millions leaving organized religion?" NorthJersey.com. https://www.northjersey.com/in-depth/news/2021/09/20/nones-religiously-unaffiliated-americans-increasing/4386549001/

• “Who are the Spiritual but not Religious?” Interfaith Voices Radio, interfaithradio.org; http://interfaithradio.org/Archive/2018/Religion__Remixed “After going on her own nuanced spiritual journey, a researcher realizes that there are a lot of misconceptions about people who identify as "spiritual but not religious," namely that they aren't serious about their beliefs. Our guest says that couldn't be further from the truth. She conducted hundreds of interviews with so-called SBNR's to let them tell their own spiritual stories - and compiled her research in a book called “Belief Without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual But Not Religious.””
• “Connecting with the Dead: Spiritualists See People as Eternal Beings as Well as Flesh,” interviewed by Danae King, The Columbus Dispatch, May 2017
• “Spiritual But Secular: Will deleting God entice unbelievers to join a faith community?” interviewed by Anne Bokma, The United Church Observer, June 2017 ucobserver.org/columns/2017/06/spiritual_secular/
• “Spiritual But Secular: 10 books to help you understand the habits and drives of the ‘spiritual but not religious’” Reviewed by Anne Bokma, The United Church Observer, July 2017 ucobserver.org/columns/2017/07/sbs_july2017/
• “Developing the Lay Evangelical Mind: Francis Schaeffer, James Houston, and the Rise of the Study Center in North American Evangelicalism,” Featured in Charles Cotherman, Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. of Virginia, 2016
• “How to Get Millennials to Church? Houses of Worship Get Creative,” Interviewed by Emily Thompson, The Columbus Monthly, July 2015
• Comments on the Pew Religious Landscape Survey, WOSU NPR, “All Sides with Ann Fisher”, May 2015 http://radio.wosu.org/post/changing-us-religious-landscape
• “Can you be spiritual but not religious?” NBCs The Today Show, April 1, 2015 http://www.today.com/news/spirituality-religion-can-you-have-one-without-other-t12351
• “Lessons for the Church from the Spiritual but not Religious,” Interviewed by Joe Iovino, UMC.org Feature, May 15, 2015
• “FUMC Guests Bring Unique Views to Town,” Interviewed by Megan Quinn, Boulder Daily Camera, June 6. 2015
• Podcast, “Understanding SBNRs,” The Mystical Positivist, Sebastopol, CA. Fall 2014
• The Columbus Dispatch, "How Faiths Can Reach 'spiritual, not religious,' interview article, by JoAnne Viviano, Jan 10, 2014
• “Religious Revival in Cuba,” Interview on “All Sides with Ann Fisher,” WOSU Radio NPR, 2/21/2013
• “Conversations about Faith,” WOSU 89.7 NPR News, 12/9/12; Interview with Fred Andrle
• “‘Spiritual but not Religious’ What Does That Mean?” Interview with L. Mercadante in The United Methodist Reporter, Vol. 159, No. 12, July 20, 2012
• “The Spiritual but not Religious Show” Internet TV interview with host George Lewis, Mar. 1, 2011 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13033144
• “Spirituality or Religion?,” Interview and Call-In, WOSU 820 AM, All Sides with Ann Fisher, Aug. 2010 http://www.wosu.org/allsides/?archive=1&date=08/12/2010
• “What Does it Mean to Say You’re Spiritual but Not Religious”, Interview with L.Mercadante. On OPEN LINE WITH FRED ANDERLE, WOSU [NPR affiliate] 6/08 http://www.wosu.org/radio/radio-open-line/?archive=1&date=06/10/2008
• “Pelagian Theology Lives on in Science: Medical Model of Addictions Blames ‘Religion ’” Interview with Linda Mercadante. In VITAL THEOLOGY: HELPING PEOPLE THINK THEOLOGICALLY, 11/07, 4:4
• “Soul Survivors: Spirituality in Addiction and Recovery,” Report on researchers, SOCIAL WORK TODAY, March/April 2006
• “Interview on Addiction & Spirituality Conference,” SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY NEWS, 2005
• “Is Addiction Sin?” Interview, ADVENTIST REVIEW, 2003 http://www.adventistreview.org/2003-1531/story1.html

Featured in Media

• “What Must the Church Know about SBNRs?” Field Notes from Regent College, Winter 2015.
• “The Gospel and the SBNR,” Report on Winter Forum featuring L. Mercadante, by Rick Bargar, President, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, 2/11/15
• “From Religious to Spiritual – and Back Again,” The National Catholic Review, Francis X. Clooney 7/19/14
• Blogger for CNN; The Huffington Post; Oxford Online
• Review of Belief without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but Not Religious. Secularism and Nonreligion, 4: 9, pp. 1–2, Schaefer, D O 2015, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/snr.bb
• Review of Belief without Borders, Publishers Weekly, Jan. 2014
• Review of Belief without Borders in The Christian Century, "Books to Read for Spring,"
• 2014
• Featured in The New York Times, Sat. July 19, 2014, article on *Belief without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious.*
• Featured in America Magazine, July 2014, review of Belief without Borders
• “Minister Launches SBNR site: Interview,” THE CHRISTIAN POST, April 2009, http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090430/minister-launches-spiritual-but-not-religious-movement/index.html#
• “Help Needed,” THE’S POSTEROUS, 2009, http://thestarthrower.posterous.com/help-needed-2
• “Minister Studies Why Americans Are ‘Spiritual but not Religious,” THE CHRISTIAN POST, Oct. 2008, http://www.christianpost.com/article/20081022/minister-studies-why-americans-are-spiritual-but-not-religious/index.html#
• “To church or not to church: PC(USA) researcher studies the ‘spiritual but not religious,’” Jerry Van Marter, PRESBYTERIAN NEWS SERVICE ONLINE, 10/08  http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/2008/08779.htm
• “Minister Studies Why Americans are Spiritual but not Religious,” ANGLICANS ABLAZE, 10/23/08 http://anglicansablaze.blogspot.com/search?q=mercadante
• “More Describe Selves as Spiritual, Not Religious,” Front page story on Mercadante research project, in BOULDER DAILY CAMERA [BOULDER, CO] 4/08 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13095951?IADID=Search-www.dailycamera.com-www.dailycamera.com#
• “To Church or Not to Church,” KRUSE KRONICLE, 10/08 http://krusekronicle.typepad.com/kruse_kronicle/2008/10/to-church-or-not-to-church.html
• “What does ‘Spiritual but not Religious’ Mean?” NOVA SCOTIA SCOTT, 24, 2008 http://www.novascotiascott.com/2008/10/24/what-does-spiritual-but-not-religious-really-mean/
• “To Church or Not to Church,” JOHN MARK MINISTRIES, Oct. 2008 http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/21808.htm
• Faith and Values Columnist, The Columbus Dispatch
  • “Going Through My Mother’s Drawers,” 4/08/04
  • “Christians Should Heed the Victims Among Us,” 4/15/05
  • “Mother’s Legacy Can’t Be Found in Possessions,” 4/4/05
  • “God Wants Us to Treat Immigrants with Compassion and Patience,” 12/20/05
  • And others
• Columnist, “Christmas Reflections,” THIS WEEK, Suburban chain of newspapers, Dec. 2005