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Washington Post
Washington post wrote an article saying that 15 percent of Americans have no religion.

The survey reflects a key question that demographers, sociologists and political scientists have been asking in recent years: Who makes up this growing group of evangelicals? Forty-four percent of America’s 77 million Christian adults say they are born again or evangelical. Meanwhile, 18 percent of Catholics also chose that label, as did 40 percent of mainline Christians.

“If people call themselves ‘evangelical,’ it doesn’t tell you as much as you think it tells you about what kind of church they go to,” Silk said. “It deepens the conundrum about who evangelicals are.”

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That’s quite surprising, since I thought it was much higher than that. It was noted that terms people call themselves are being more and more vague. People no longer want to be called protestant, but rather evangelical. Even vaguer still, non-denominational. And the number of non-religious or irreligious is up as well.
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Thought this was an intersting article by matthew Parris in The Times.

This was his rather insightful conclusion:

Those who want Africa to walk tall amid 21st-century global competition must not kid themselves that providing the material means or even the knowhow that accompanies what we call development will make the change. A whole belief system must first be supplanted.

And I’m afraid it has to be supplanted by another. Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

Thanks to Against Heresies for the link.

PBS just ran a segment entitled Jesus in China.  An interesting look at the Christians in China.  Even included one of the churches I attended when I was in Beijing.

A highly recommended documentary showing how Christianity is evolving/revolutionizing the Chinese culture.

For Paul, the most important thing is stated in 1 Corinthians 15, “for what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures…”

How important is Jesus life, death, and resurrection?  For Christians, it is of first importance.