Sections
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Evangelism
29%
Converts (people who have switched religions) who say they share their faith at least weekly.
20%
Those who still belong to their childhood faith who say they share their faith at least weekly.
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Faith-Based Initiative
Americans who think it is okay for churches to apply for government funding to provide social services.
2001:
Republicans: 81%
Democrats: 70%
2009:
Republicans: 66%
Democrats: 77%
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Preaching
84%
Of pastors who speak to their church on homosexuality several times a year or more, those who also speak on poverty that often.
78%
Of pastors who rarely or never speak on homosexuality, those who those who also speak on poverty several times a year or more.
Television
Profanities in an hour of broadcast prime-time television:
1990: 5.5
2001: 7.6
2005: 9.8
Church Life
28%
Megachurch pastors' spouses who are also employed by the church.
34%
Megachurch pastors' spouses who work outside the church.
37%
Megachurch pastors' spouses who are not employed outside the home.
Church Life
22%
Americans who say they have never attended a religious service (2006)
9%
Americans who said this in 1972.
Minority Affairs
27%
Americans who say there is a lot of discrimination against evangelical Christians.
24%
Evangelicals who say they are a part of a religious minority.
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Government
53%
Americans who think the government "should promote traditional values in our society."
48%
Americans who said this a year ago.
Church Life
10%
of American churches contain half of all churchgoers in the country.
Sexual Ethics
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