Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 29% of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated according to a Pew Research study, either identifying as an atheist, ...

PROVIDENCE — Long before COVID-19, Don Mays was a Black middle schooler in a pew at his family’s church, listening to a preacher disparage the LGBTQ community and feeling confused. “I thought, ‘How ...