Religious Trends

“Buddhism is the most trusted religion in New Zealand, while Evangelical Christians take the bottom spot, a new survey says.” - NZ Herald

“U.S. adults generally can answer basic questions about the Bible and Christianity, but are less familiar with other world religions” - Pew

“Americans with a high level of religious knowledge have a warmer view of Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants and Buddhists than they have of evangelical Christians and are least warm to Muslims and atheists, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.” - Christian Examiner

“A growing number of Americans do not follow a religion. But chances are that the details of their lives — from their phones and their politics to their dinner plates and how they raise their kids — are still ruled by some sort of a religious impulse, says author David Zahl.” - RNS

“To put it another way, religious decline in Britain is generational; people tend to be less religious than their parents, and on average their children are even less religious than they are.” - Guardian

“Americans’ confidence in the church or organized religion continues to erode, with 36% now saying they have ‘a great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in organized religion, establishing another new low point in Gallup’s trend.” - Gallup

“… the International Religious Freedom Report details the status of religious freedom in nearly 200 foreign countries and territories and describes U.S. actions and policies in support of religious freedom worldwide.” - Acton

“There’s a pernicious stereotype that atheists are immoral because we don’t have God in our lives. But, in fact, our beliefs are really no different from society at large.” - Patheos

“In a sample of the research released Tuesday, Barna found that… 64% of millennial non-Christians reported having one or more conversations about their beliefs with a Christian, versus 44% for older non-Christians.” - Christian Post

“The study found that … 61 percent of millennial evangelicals (ages 18 through 34), 54 percent of ‘boomers and matures’ (ages 55 and over) and 44 percent of Generation X (ages 35 to 54) respondents” said they attend church once per week or more. - Christian Post