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Jacqui Frost is an assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University. 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 would it look like if atheists were gathering to do these rituals instead? Today,

Energy prices continued to fall in December on an annual basis, offering relief to Americans struggling to heat their homes and fill their gas tanks. The energy component of the Consumer Price Index fell 2 percent compared with December 2022, the Labor Department reported on Thursday. But the energy index rose 0.4 percent on a

Bitcoin bulls join forces with Wall Street A new era of crypto trading is expected to begin as soon as today, after the S.E.C. finally approved the creation of new exchange-traded funds that would allow investors to more easily buy and sell Bitcoin. The regulator yesterday authorized 11 fund managers — including the Wall Street

Chesapeake Energy and Southwestern Energy, two of America’s largest natural-gas producers, announced plans to merge on Thursday, in an all-stock deal worth $7.4 billion. The new company would become one of the largest energy producers in the United States, with a significant presence in Louisiana and Texas. Combined, the two companies would have a market