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Feb 12, 2014

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1. Business Insider: A Fascinating New Poll Shows That Americans Are Losing Faith In God A new Harris Poll released today reveals that only 74% of Americans believe in God, an 8% decline since 2009. Before today, U.S. adults had remained fairly consistent in their religious beliefs — 82% of U.S. respondents previously reported that…
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Mar 2, 2013

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1. Conventional wisdom says wearing the red shirt in Star Trek will get you killed. Not so fast. Statistical analysis in Significance Magazine disagrees. (Keep your redshirt on: a Bayesian exploration) "… In spite of wearing a redshirt, there is only an 8.6% chance of a member of the operations or engineering departments becoming a…
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Feb 23, 2013

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1. Christian History magazine has an entire issue devoted to Christians in the New Industrial Economy: The World Changed, the Church Responded. It is a priceless collection of essays on how various religious traditions responded to (or failed to) the challenges of the Industrial Revolution. Issue 104 examines the impact of automation on Europe and…
Study: U.S. church attendance steady, but makeup of churchgoers changes

Apr 22, 2010

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in Demography, Ecclesia, Education, Gender and Sex, Race, Religion, Sociology, Trends: Social

University of Nebraska: Study: U.S. church attendance steady, but makeup of churchgoers changes U.S. church attendance rates have held relatively steady over the past three and a half decades, a new study shows. But the makeup of the nation's congregations has undergone significant changes during that same time. University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel applied…
Where have all the Protestants gone?

Mar 2, 2010

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in Ecclesia, Presbyterian Church, USA, Religion, Trends: Social

USA Today: Where have all the Protestants gone? So-called mainliners led the fight for social causes such as civil rights, equality for women and other key issues of the day. Now that American society has embraced such norms, liberal Protestant groups have become marginalized. Or have they? Since the first Protestants rowed to shore in…

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Study: U.S. church attendance steady, but makeup of churchgoers changes

Where have all the Protestants gone?