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...doctrines of their denomination. Their conversion has been sparked by the recognition that sugarcoated Christianity, popular in the 1980s and early '90s, has caused growing numbers of kids to turn away not just from attending youth-fellowship activities but also from practicing their faith at all. In a national survey recently released by Barna Group, a polling firm that tracks religious trends, only 33% of kids 13 to 18 responded that they attend a youth-group event regularly--a 3% drop since 1998. And while nearly 75% pray each week, that number has declined...
Even more worrisome to many youth ministers was the Barna survey finding that 61% of the adults polled who are now in their 20s said they had participated in church activities as teens but no longer do. Some experts point out that young people typically drift from organized religion in early adulthood, but others say the high attrition is a sign that churches need to change the way they try to engage the next generation of the faithful. "This dip should serve as an exhortation for everyone to be about the business of discipleship, missions and a higher calling than...
There are many ways to measure the vibrancy of India's publishing industry. Take the growth in newspaper readership: According to a survey by the National Readership Studies Council released in August, the number of people in India who read a newspaper every day grew by 12.6 million people to 203.6 million over the previous year, a jump of more than...
...residents of the House or Yard with the highest participation rate will receive free movie tickets, and every 35th student to complete the survey will win a Nalgene...
...half of the student body [answering the survey], I’d be ecstatic,” he added...