Religious Trends

What China’s Seven New Rulers Mean for Its 80 Million Christians

“…the nominals are becoming the nones.”

“[T]here is movement in religious identification that should cause us to consider three ramifications….”

Opinion Matters survey: “52 percent of U.K. adults believe UFO evidence has been covered up because widespread knowledge of their existence would threaten government stability, as opposed to 44 percent who say they believe in God.”

“A recent Pew Research Center poll shows that nearly one-fifth of all U.S. adults, including over 30% of adults age 30 and under, now list their religious affiliation as ‘none.’”

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Seven Common Comments Non-Christians Make About Christians

“A new Ohio State University study of Amish communities in the United States and Ontario, Canada, shows explosive growth taking place…”



This is not about being “right” or “wrong” on an issue. This is about menacing and bullying people into conforming or paying the price. It’s about the bastardization of the word “tolerance” in our society, to the point where the word no longer means “live and let live” or “let people be who they are”; the word has become distorted in a very unhealthy way.



Russ Douthat’s insightful analysis of what’s gone wrong in the Episcopal Church and Liberal Christianity in general.

A response at Huffpost.

ChristianityToday

(Note: the graphic is produced by BioLogos, which sees belief in direct, fiat creation as some kind of heresy)a