A New York Time article called Dan Brown’s America by Ross Doutha explains:
In the Brownian worldview, all religions — even Roman Catholicism — have the potential to be wonderful, so long as we can get over the idea that any one of them might be particularly true. It’s a message perfectly tailored for 21st-century America, where the most [...]
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American Spirituality and Dan Brown
Posted in Demographic Trends, Religious Trends on May 20, 2009 | Comments Off
America Is Becoming Post-Christian?
Posted in Demographic Trends, Religious Trends on April 6, 2009 | Comments Off
From the cover story of Newsweek, “The End of Christian America,”
There it was, an old term with new urgency: post-Christian. This is not to say that the Christian God is dead, but that he is less of a force in American politics and culture than at any other time in recent memory. To the surprise of [...]
America becoming less Christian
Posted in Demographic Trends on March 9, 2009 | Comments Off
From CNN:
Three out of four Americans call themselves Christian, according to the American Religious Identification Survey from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1990, the figure was closer to nine out of 10 — 86 percent.
At the same time there has been an increase in the number of people expressing no religious affiliation.
The survey also [...]
Southren cities outgrowing northren cities
Posted in Church Planting, Demographic Trends on June 29, 2007 | Comments Off
(a picture of the Phoenix skyline)
An analysis of Census reported that southern cities are growing much more than northern cities (click here for an USA Today article on the subject). The only exception to this trend is New York, which added the greatest amount with 206,000 people. Among the cities that grew the most, Phoenix [...]
