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That refusal to cede religion to Republicans has characterized Obama's presidential campaign as well. He has a larger and more comprehensive religious-outreach operation than any Democrat in history. According to an August poll from the Barna Group, Obama leads McCain in every religious demographic - mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims - except for white Evangelicals...
...battle, and Paine’s impact can still be felt over 20 years after his death: former Co-oper Edward R. Barna ’70 named his son after Paine. And Joe Pesci’s character in With Honors, a 1994 movie directed by a Harvard College grad, was based on Paine...
...prefer documentaries, what talk radio is for conservatives: a way of rallying the base. Many follow the pattern of the $370 million--grossing 2004 juggernaut The Passion of the Christ. Fewer than 0.1% of those who saw the film said they became Christians as a result, according to a Barna Group poll, but 18% of the audience said some aspect of their religious behavior changed--mostly praying and attending church more...
Three hours into the meeting, the negotiating team was still answering audience questions about the contract. "You're talking about complex calculus," says Karen Barna, writer of Step Up 2. "Writers aren't all that business-minded. We have people for that...
Evangelicalism worries chronically about its youth. Polling by the evangelically oriented Barna research group shows that at least half of regular churchgoers ages 16 to 29 think their church is too judgmental, too political and too negative about homosexuality. Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow describes today's young adults as spiritual "tinkerers...