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The Percentage Of American Adults Who Preferred ...
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 11, 2001 (message contributor)
The percentage of American adults who preferred no religion in 1991 was 7 percent and that figure doubled to 14 percent in 1998, say Michael Hout and Claude S. Fischer, professors of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
- American Sociological Review - April 2002
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For The Christian, Heaven Isn't Simply A ... PRO
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Connected But Not Altered PRO
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CONNECTED BUT NOT ALTERED David Yarborough tells the story from one of Max Lucado’s books of a lady who had a small house on the seashore of Ireland at the turn of the century was quite wealthy but also quite frugal. The people were surprised, then, when she decided to be among the first to have ...read more
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Mother Theresa Tells The Story Of Ministering To ... PRO
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Mother Theresa tells the story of ministering to an old woman dying from starvation: “One evening we went out, and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition. I told the sisters, ‘You take care of the other three; I will take care of the one who ...read more
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Eugene Peterson Writes, "If We Don't Want God, Or ... PRO
Contributed by Robert Leroe on Sep 22, 2002
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