Controversial Documentary on Religion Unveiled
Posted by Tim Drake
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:10 PM
If you were to meet 10 average Americans on the street, nine of them would say they believe in God. So, why is the gospel of love dividing America?
Dan Merchant (a.k.a. The Bumper-Sticker Man) put on a bumper sticker-clad jumpsuit and decided to find out.
After talking with scores of men and women on streets all across the nation, and also interviewing many well-known active participants in... READ MORE
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Keeping Their Faith
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:24 AM
The Catholic Church has one of the highest “retention rates” of any Christian church in the United States.
A new study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reported that 68% of Catholics carry their faith into adulthood.
This number is not a cause for celebration; the fact that 32% of Catholics do not live out their faith as adults should be a matter of profound concern. But as... READ MORE
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Catholics Shift Southwest
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:02 PM
The most notable Catholic-related trend in the new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) survey of American religion is geographic.
Driven primarily by Hispanic immigration, a shift is taking place in the Catholic population from the U.S. Northeast to the Southwest states where Latin American immigrants are concentrated.
The ARIS survey was conducted by Trinity College’s Program on... READ MORE
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A Glass Three-Quarters Full
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:36 PM
A new survey of religion in America has found the nation’s Christian faith to be quite resilient in the face of contemporary secularizing trends.
But you wouldn’t know that from coverage in the secular media about the survey, called the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS).
Here was CNN’s take, for example: “America becoming less Christian, survey finds,” was the title of... READ MORE
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Journalists Just Don’t Get It
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:22 AM
The “God thing,” that is.
That’s the premise of a new book of essays titled Blind Spot: When Journalists Just Don’t Get Religion.
In a Wall Street Journal review of the book, Vincent Carroll provides a recent example of the ignorance the book addresses.
“In a jarring misreading of the Islamist mentality, the New York Times last month described a Jewish center in Mumbai, India, as the... READ MORE
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