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That’s a softer title than the author used in a Christian Science Monitor opinion piece: “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” I’m not sure how seriously to take the argument: the author is a popular blogger but not a scholar. There’s no data used or referenced in the article. The recent ARIS results (see my post from…

But “Mormons have increased in numbers enough to hold their own proportionally, at 1.4 percent of the population.” That’s the verdict of the latest American Religious Identification Survey, which found that “86% of American adults identified as Christians in 1990 and 76% in 2008.” That’s still 3 out of 4, but the trend is unmistakable.…

When the going gets tough … find a convenient scapegoat. Not that AIG execs likely deserve their bonuses, but it sure seems like the collective venting going on is just the release of bottled up frustration and anger about the financial meltdown that, unfortunately, is too big and too amorphous to have a readily identifiable…

A survey came out a few weeks ago measuring belief in evolution across denominations. Mormons were close to the low end of the spectrum, at 22%; Evangelicals came in at 24%. See “Mormons Worse at Believing Evolution?” at Mormon Metaphysics for a nice graph and discussion.
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