Last year, as the denomination faced its fourth consecutive year of decline, members adopted a proposal to be more intentional about placing racial and ethnic minorities on SBC committees and agency staff. As of 2010, African-American churches comprised 8 percent of the denomination’s churches; 50 percent of Southern Baptist churches […]
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New trends in immigrant settlement patterns are changing communities across the United States. The traditional American story of immigrant enclaves in the heart of major cities has been fundamentally altered with the restructuring of the US economy, the decentralization of cities, and the growth of the suburbs as major employment […]
But most within this unaffiliated group — 55 percent — identified with a religious group when they were younger. “These younger unaffiliated adults are very nonreligious,” said Daniel Cox, PRRI’s research director. “They demonstrate much lower levels of religiosity than we see in the general population,” including participation in religious […]
The study used the Simpson’s Index of Diversity to measure the degree of religious diversity. This index measures the probability that two individuals taken an random are adherents of different religious traditions. People were categorized as Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Mormon, Protestant, Other Christian and Eastern religion adherents for the purposes […]
The number of men, women and children in the pews has dipped to the lowest level since a comprehensive effort to count members began in 1980, according to the 2009 edition of Churches of Christ in the United States. In the newly released directory, 21st Century Christian identifies 12,629 a […]
And according to the study by Floatingsheep.org, Americans tweet more about church than beer, and there is a distinct regional divide between the tweets. Church tweets were most common in the Southeast United States, while tweets about beer were most prevalent in the Northeast. (More) via http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/09/study-people-tweet-more-about-church-than-beer/
Numerous shifts are occurring among church-goers in the U.S. as they choose from many new forms and formats of the local church. One of the least understood forms is the house church, and one of the fundamental questions is exactly how many people are attending house churches.(more) via http://www.barna.org/organic-church-articles/291-how-many-people-really-attend-a-house-church-barna-study-finds-it-depends-on-the-definition
Where Are People Moving To and From? via http://www.kcmblog.com/2012/01/27/where-are-people-moving-to-and-from/
Southern Baptists elect first black president By Becky Perlow, CNN (CNN) – More than 160 years after its founding as a pro-slavery church, the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday elected a black pastor for the first time to lead the denomination. The election of the Rev. Fred Luter Jr. of New […]