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How Many Adventists Are College and University Students?
By Monte Sahlin The most recent Freshman Survey in the United States (from 2014) found that three-tenth of one percent of the students reported that their religious preference was Seventh-day Adventist. That is 0.3%. Only two of the listed religious... Continue reading
Posted Aug 8, 2015 at Faith in Context
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The Thinking Primate
Posted Jul 31, 2015 at Faith in Context
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Seventh-day Adventist Church Refuses Ordination to Women
Posted Jul 21, 2015 at Faith in Context
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Does Alcoholics Anonymous Work?
Posted Jun 25, 2015 at Faith in Context
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It's More Than a Headscarf
Posted Jun 5, 2015 at Faith in Context
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What Does New Survey Tell Us About Adventists?
By Monte Sahlin The Pew Research Center released its 2014 Religious Landscape of the United States yesterday and this morning there are news stories about the rapid growth of "nones" (people who tell pollsters their religion is none at all)... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2015 at Faith in Context
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America's Most Secular Cities
By Monte Sahlin "Nones" are people who when they are asked in a survey, What is your religious preference? answer with "none." That is their religious preference is no religion. One of major trends underway in America today is the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2015 at Faith in Context
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What We Haven't Understood about ISIS
Posted Mar 26, 2015 at Faith in Context
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Class Warfare and Religion in the United States
By Monte Sahlin America has always prided itself in being a society unlike many places in Europe and the southern Hemisphere where there are large differences between the elite and the masses. (In fact, Europe has changed significantly over the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 9, 2015 at Faith in Context
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Is "Spiritual But Not Religious" Real?
By Monte Sahlin Nancy Ammerman's new book, Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes is excellent. I recommend that you read it! One interesting question she raises is about the category that is currently getting a lot of attention, the people who say,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2015 at Faith in Context
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Will Business Be the Salvation of Churches?
Posted Jan 6, 2015 at Faith in Context
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Is America Near a Demographic Tipping Point?
By Monte Sahlin For six years in a row the number of births in the United States has declined. In 2013 there were 3.93 million babies born following 3.95 in 2012. Since a high point in 2007 the number of... Continue reading
Posted Dec 6, 2014 at Faith in Context
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Should Christians Secede from the World?
Posted Oct 7, 2014 at Faith in Context
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Americans Like Jews Better than Mormons and Muslims
Posted Sep 9, 2014 at Faith in Context
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Was PBS's "Secrets of the Vatican" Anti-Catholic?
Posted Jul 21, 2014 at Faith in Context
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Americans Are Increasingly Polarized, Pew Finds
Posted Jun 27, 2014 at Faith in Context
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Amish Success—More or Less.
Posted Jun 16, 2014 at Faith in Context
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What is the Book of Revelation Really About?
by Monte Sahlin Many conservative Protestant/evangelical Christians read the Book of Revelation as a tool for predicting the end of life as we know it. Is that the way God intended it to be read and understood, or did He... Continue reading
Posted May 24, 2014 at Faith in Context
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What Young Adults Think about the Bible
Today's young adults, the Millennial generation, now 19 to 34 years of age, have significantly less regard for the Bible than do older generations. That is the general conclusion from a survey conducted for the American Bible Society by Barna... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2014 at Faith in Context
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New Book About Waco Reopens Questions
Posted Mar 30, 2014 at Faith in Context
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A Landmark Case Study of a Megachurch
by Monte Sahlin This in-depth case study of Saddleback Church in southern California and founding pastor Rick Warren was actually published in 2012, but I only recently got around to reading it. It is Sacred Subdivisions by Justin Wilford (New... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2014 at Faith in Context
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Lennon the Prophet
Posted Feb 7, 2014 at Faith in Context
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Scott Stossel and the Pros and Cons of Telling All
Posted Jan 30, 2014 at Faith in Context
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Case Studies of Congregations Successfully Engaging Young Adults to be Published
Posted Jan 24, 2014 at Faith in Context
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