The Economist reports on the a schism emerging in th Southern Baptist Convention.
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God in America? Really?
I write having seen the first installment of God in America, a three-part series produced by PBS that showed some promise.…
Surveying religious knowledge
Following the release last week of the results of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey,…
Pew poll shows Americans lack religious “knowledge”
A newly published report from the Pew Forum Religion and Public Life shows that Americans seemingly know very little about religious…
“God in America”
October 11, 12, and 13, PBS' FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE will present "God in America," a six-hour series investigating "the…
Black crescent, white cross
By now, everyone has seen the Newsweek poll indicating that a majority of Republicans believes President Barack Obama sympathizes with…
Holding on to multiplicity
Scholars of religion (like, it seems, scholars of nearly everything animate and inanimate) have yet to decide if the world…
Working on individualism
Even the most open-minded social scientists—those who are up for studying almost any social group or activity—tend to find the…
Pew survey: Jesus to return by 2050?
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a new survey last week, focusing on people's predictions…
The Catholic heresy, again
The reason I am talking about Catholics here is because of the subtitle of Bender's book: Spirituality and the American…