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...desegregation of the megachurches - and consider it a possible pivotal moment in the nation's faith. Such rapid change in such big institutions "blows my mind," says Emerson. Some of the country's largest churches are involved: the very biggest, Joel Osteen's Lakewood Community Church in Houston (43,500 members), is split evenly among blacks, Hispanics and a category containing whites and Asians. Hybels' Willow Creek is at 20% minority. Megachurches serve only 7% of American churchgoers, but they are extraordinarily influential: Willow Creek, for instance, networks another 12,000 smaller congregations through its Willow Creek Association. David Campbell...
...year study was sponsored by the Department of Justice. Researchers interviewed 120 Muslims in Buffalo, N.Y.; Houston; Seattle; and Raleigh and Durham in North Carolina. They also analyzed American Muslim websites and publications and studied data on prosecutions of American Muslims on terrorism-related offenses. (See the best pictures...