In 2019, the New Jersey Legislature passed a law legalizing medically assisted suicide. Several other states debated similar measures.

The Most Rev. Justin Welby is the archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England. He has engaged a number of social issues since being installed in this role in March 2013, including poverty, climate change and medically assisted suicide.

Mark Pickering is the chief executive officer of the Christian Medical Fellowship, which serves Christians in the field of medicine in the United Kingdom.

Religious nones are the face of the evolving religious landscape. But that oversimplifies shifts taking place around the world, according to the research.

Grace Davie is a professor of sociology at the University of Exeter. She studies religion-related demographic trends in Europe.

Davis Voas is a professor of social science at University College London, where he studies religious change.  He helps lead the European Values Survey and British Religion in Numbers project.

Rebecca Catto is an assistant professor of sociology at Kent State University in Ohio. She studies the interplay between religion and secularism in North America and Europe.

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Claire Bonham is the strategic lead for volunteering for The Salvation Army United Kingdom.