via:christianpost A soon to be published survey on the spiritual habits of American adults found that nearly 70 percent of respondents consider Easter to be a religious observance. The survey, which was part of several conducted by the American Bible Society and the Barna Group, found that 69 percent of U.S. adults […]
I found this on line via bcnn1.com *Most Americans are concerned about the moral state of the nation, yet few consider whether or not gambling–a wager of money, property or something of value based on chance–is part of the problem. “It’s just a game, entertainment,” they say. Unfortunately, only 31 percent of Americans believe
Via bcnn1.com Two Sundays ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver both attended Mass at St. Monica’s Church in Santa Monica, California. But this time, they came alone, not together, as has been their usual pattern. Before Shriver learned of Schwarzenegger’s infidelity earlier this year, the couple and their four
A new Rasmussen Reports found that a majority of Americans don’t plan on skipping prayer even though they won’t attend parties this New Year’s Eve. An estimated 66 percent say they will
19 months in, a few Americans think Obama is Muslim, but nearly half don’t know what he is It’s interesting, certainly timely and politically potent that a small but growing number of Americans believes that Barack Obama is a Muslim, even before his controversial recent support of a new mosque near New York’s ground zero. […]
The American clergy is suffering from burnout, several new studies show. And part of the problem, as researchers have observed, is that pastors work too much. SOURCE: The New York Times G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Traditional church works fine for a lot of people, but there’s a growing number of people for whom it’s not working.
AOL News (Feb. 6) — Eight of the 10 U.S. Baptist missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti are pleading for help in a letter one of them slipped to a journalist through prison bars.”We fear for our lives Here in Haiti,” said the letter, which was signed by everyone in the Idaho church group […]
