From Christianity Today By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra The Bible Belt is still firmly buckled. Southern cities top the list of the most “Bible-minded cities” in the United States, calculated each year by the American Bible Society (ABS) and Barna Group. The...
By Bill Leonard Baptist News Global “If you vote for Al Smith, [the Roman Catholic presidential candidate] you’re voting against Christ and you’ll all be damned.” (Billy Sunday, 1928) The election of a Catholic president would mean the end of religious freedom in...
By Robert Dilday Baptist News Global The American Baptist Churches U.S.A. ranks in the top 10 of the most racially diverse religious groups in the United States, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. But with 73 percent of its membership white, 11...
By Jeff Brumley The American church, it seems, just can’t catch a break. The “nones” won’t come in, the “dones” are … well, done, and the rest of the membership is slowly but surely dying off. Attendance and tithing are taking big hits. And now congregational...
By Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi Pew Research Center recently released a report on the future of world religion. Using population growth projections, researchers have predicted which traditions will increase in membership and which traditions will decline in the next 35...
