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Emerging Conversation

Religion Among the Millennials: Less Religiously Active Than Older Americans, But Fairly Traditional In Other Ways

February 22, 2010

The Pew Research Center has posted a new series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial generation. From the overview: By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans. Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith [...]

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The Real Decline of Churches

July 21, 2009

Three news stories in recent days point to significant change in the landscape of North American religion.  For decades now, the conventional wisdom about church growth has been that only conservative churches–those that take the Bible literally and embrace conservative politics–could grow.  But it appears that conventional wisdom is being seriously questioned. Take a look [...]

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Study Shows Why Americans Drift From Religion

April 28, 2009

From the Executive Summary: Americans change religious affiliation early and often. In total, about half of American adults have changed religious affiliation at least once during their lives. Most people who change their religion leave their childhood faith before age 24, and many of those who change religion do so more than once. These are [...]

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Real Faith in a Real World

January 29, 2009

This coming Sunday I’ll begin a series of sermons that I’m entitling “Real Faith in a Real World.” For some time I have wanted to explore the significant gap that exists between “organized religion” and “personal spirituality.”  Recent research has shown that many of those outside of Christianity, especially younger adults, have little trust in [...]

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