by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 8, 2021 | News
Church attendance in U.S. Protestant churches remains below pre-pandemic rates, even as in-person gatherings have returned to January 2020 levels, according to a LifeWay Research report published Nov. 2. Nearly every Protestant congregation held in-person meetings in...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 4, 2021 | News
Most U.S. adults say that opposing racism and racial discrimination is an essential part of their faith tradition, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. Respondents were presented with several prompts to answer the following question: “How important is...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 3, 2021 | News
Two reports, published in late October in the lead up to the COP26 climate conference currently taking place in Glasgow, paint a bleak picture regarding the likelihood of keeping global temperatures from increasing more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 2, 2021 | News
Child labor increased in 2020 despite decades of efforts to reduce unsafe, exploitative labor practices, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report published Sept. 29. Of the 233 million working children in the world in 2020, 160 million were in conditions of...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 1, 2021 | News
White evangelical Protestants are more likely than the general public to express a desire for less separation between church and state, according to a Pew Research Center report published Oct. 28. More than a third (34%) say “the federal government should stop...
by Good Faith Media | Oct 29, 2021 | News
Colin Harris is professor emeritus of religious studies at Mercer University, having retired from full-time teaching in 2013. He is a longtime columnist for Good Faith Media, and is member of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where he teaches an...
