This article originally appeared on Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s blog “Standing on My Head,” and is reprinted with permission. Visit his website, browse his books, and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com. We often hear from atheists how religion is dying out as mankind comes to see the clear light...
1) Since 1973, there have been over 53 million abortions in the United States alone To put that in perspective, that’s an average of about 1.3 million a year, about 108,000 a month, and over 3,500 per day. [Source] 2) Since 1971, there have been 336...
Though American culture seems to be increasingly secularized, here’s some good news: most Americans still believe in the historical accuracy of the traditional Christmas story. A recent PewForum poll asked people whether they believed the following four aspects of the story were true: that Jesus was born to a...
Previously, we brought you “11 Maps to Help You Make Sense of World Religion,” “13 Insightful Maps of U.S. Religion,” and “10 Revealing Maps of Religion in Europe.” We even brought you “24 Crazy Facts About Global Christianity in the 21st Century“! Today, we’re zeroing in on that...
The global face of Christianity has changed dramatically in the last one hundred years. So much so, that everything that seemed so permanent about “the way the world was” no longer holds. Information courtesy of PewForum, here’s where things stand: 1) There are roughly 2.18 billion Christians in...
