Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2009
Those of you who don’t live in West Virginia will surely be disappointed to learn that you’ve been outreligioned by the Mountain State: Forty-five percent of West Virginians say religion is very important in their lives as compared to 36 percent of U.S. respondents who agreed with that statement. In West Virginia, 71 percent of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2009
Political scientists Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit raise the important question: “How much were the Jews to blame for the financial crisis?” Being good social scientists, they conducted a survey and produced all sorts of interesting results: Notice that more respondents chose “the Jews” than any other choice offered. It’s also interesting to look at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2009
If you have a Google News Alert for “LifeWay Christian Resources, the Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing arm” like I do, you probably saw the large number of articles describing how sales of new baptisms slipped again in 2008. (I was unable to find any good statistics on sales of pre-owned baptisms.) And if you are [...]
