The United States calls itself one nation under God, but Americans don’t all have the same image of the Almighty in mind. A new survey of religion in the USA finds four very different images of God — from a wrathful deity thundering at sinful humanity to a distant power uninvolved in mankind’s affairs.
Forget denominational brands or doctrines or even once-salient terms like "Religious Right." Even the oft-used "Evangelical" appears to be losing ground. Read more.
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE: In what has been called the most comprehensive survey of the nation’s faith since a seminal study in 1968, Baylor University sociologists reported Monday that Americans aren’t losing religion, but defining their spiritual lives differently. Read more.
Waco Tribune Herald also has this story.
Go to the survey-Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion