Six Megathemes Emerge from Barna Group Research in 2010

December 13, 2010

Change usually happens slowly in the Church. But a review of the past year’s research conducted by the Barna Group provides a time-lapse portrayal of how the religious environment in the U.S. is morphing into something new.

Analyzing insights drawn from more than 5,000 non-proprietary interviews conducted over the past 11 [...]

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Dawkins and Hitchens are wrong: Religious people are actually much nicer than atheists, according to new study – Telegraph Blogs

There’s an interesting article in USA Today by David Campbell and Robert Putman, two political scientists who’ve just completed a magisterial, five-year study of the way in which religion affects American society. They try and present their findings in an even-handed, politically neutral way, but there’s no escaping the fact that religion and religious [...]

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How religion could help save Iraq | Andrew White, The Spectator

Canon Andrew White, the vicar of Baghdad, says that the recent horrifying escalation in violence could be due to the unfortunate disbanding of the council of religious leaders

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Not so many months ago we all heard a lot about Iraq. The terror and destruction here made the headlines. But then our troops came [...]

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