News

Go Figure

Recent figures and statistics on temptation, atheism, and clergy.

Pastors

52%: Americans who said in 2012 that clergy are highly honest.

50%: Americans who said in 2009 that clergy are highly honest. It was a record low.

7: Professions deemed more honest than clergy in 2012. (Nurses were No. 1.)

Source: Gallup

Sin

Americans who admit to the following temptations:

Eating too much

66%: Protestants

44%: Catholics

55%: All Americans

Gossip

22%: Protestants

29%: Catholics

26%: All Americans

Source: The Barna Group

Atheism

70%: Increase in church attendance among atheist scientists with children, compared to those without children.

Source: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

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Django Unchained and the Quest for Revenge

Jeffrey Overstreet

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More Than a Right

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Is Longer Life Better?

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Anxious About Assurance

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I Love You—I Just Don't Trust You

Bigger Than We Think

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Happy Meals

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Flip That Church

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The Sabbath Swimming Lesson

Susan Wunderink

What Classic Spiritual Discipline Needs the Most Renewal Among American Christians?

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Megan Hill

Editorial

The Future of Today's Christianity

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How a Catholic-Pentecostal Split Could Help Nigeria's Militant Islamists

Sunday Oguntola in Lagos, Nigeria

Letters to the Editor

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Gleanings

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Quotation Marks

Giving It Everything

The Love Shack

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Radical Proposal to Weed Out 'Fake Pastors' Splits Kenyans

Tom Osanjo in Nairobi, Kenya

Quick Takes

Wilson's Bookmarks

John Wilson

Excerpt

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Orphans in Limbo

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