Crunching the numbers Apr 02, 2012 by William McKinney Though giving to religion in the U.S. topped $100 billion in 2010—putting it at nearly 1 percent of GDP—no monthly index charts the nation’s leading religious indicators. Even the Census Bureau, the nation’s most comprehensive data-gathering enterprise, avoids collecting basic information about religion. No constitutional provision [...]

Evangelicals and the Coming Romney Victory May 9, 2012 Gerald R. McDermott A new poll from Virginia, a key swing state, suggests that evangelicals will help put Mitt Romney in the White House this November. It has become a truism in recent years that evangelicals are critical to our national elections. As New York Times [...]

Reading and Believing: The Press and the Future of Religion Chuck Colson, BreakPoint Thursday, September 08, 2011 The United States is often referred to as a “post-Christian” nation. In one sense, that is true: The moral and cultural assumptions shaped by Christianity that used to hold sway in American society, can no longer be taken [...]

HOUSES OF WORSHIP  AUGUST 26, 2011 Religion and the Bad News Bearers: The widely reported decline in women’s church attendance is implausible. By RODNEY STARK AND BYRON JOHNSON The national news media yawned over the Baylor Survey’s findings that the number of American atheists has remained steady at 4% since 1944, and that church membership [...]

Drew Dyck Exodus from the Church? A debate on the state of the faith. [Editor's Note: While commentators warned against the imminent threat of an evangelical theocracy in the United States (remember?), American evangelicals themselves were wondering what to make of a growing number of reports claiming that young people are dropping out of church [...]

Converting Bigfoot: The gullibility of the religious Those who identify with Christian beliefs less likely to believe in the paranormal By Michael De Groote, Mormon Times WACO, Texas — Ask anybody you know: “Who is more gullible, a liberal Episcopalian or a conservative evangelical?” Now if you define “gullible” as someone apt to believe things such [...]

God and Sasquatch by Tim Weldon on Apr 11, 2011 in Apologetics, Featured On the heels of this spring’s yet another sighting of Bigfoot, the holy grail for cryptozoologists and the slightly curious worldwide, I experienced my own sighting—this one took place  in my mind’s eye, was limited to print, and included just eleven words: [...]

Baylor Religion Survey In the News Baylor Religion Survey links, Nov.-Dec., 2006 Conventional wisdom, backed by some research, has suggested that the United States is becoming a more secularized nation – one where the significance of religion is declining. But results released Sept. 11 from the Baylor University Religion Survey paint a different picture. [12/31/2006] [...]

Baylor University Media Communications Sept. 11, 2006 Media Contacts: Julie Carlson, senior staff writer, (254) 710-6681 and Lori Fogleman, director of media relations, (254) 710-6275 (Click here to download a PDF of the Baylor Religion Survey.) (Click here to watch streaming video of the Aug. 30 news conference in which Baylor ISR researchers discussed their [...]