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A recent Gallup poll reports 89% of Americans believe that human cloning should not be allowed. (Foster ...read more
Living Beyond Their Means: Some 40% of Americans admit they live beyond their means. Seniors are most likely to match their spending to income, while young adults are most likely ...read more
Tags: Finding Fulfillment
Alzheimer’s: About 10% of people age 65 and older and 50% of those over 85 develop Alzheimer’s. 4 million people current suffer from this degenerative, incurable and always fatal ...read more
Tags: Hardship Of Life
Leisure: What do we do with our dwindling personal time? Reading tops the list, followed by watching TV. Spending time with families comes in 3rd, followed by fishing ...read more
Tags: Entertainment
The American Psychological Association research has found that religious involvement is the best indicator of psychological self-esteem among 8th graders. H.B. London of Focus on the Family notes that is the same age as young people in churches begin to drift. Other findings in the study: · 8th ...read more
Tags: Children
Overworked: The report, issued by the International Labor Organization, found that Americans added nearly a full week to their work year during the ‘90’s, climbing to 1,979 hours on average last year, up 36 hours from ‘90. That means Americans who are employed are putting in nearly 49.5 weeks a ...read more
Tags: Workplace Balance
Where Are The Young Clergy? The numbers of young pastors have been steadily declining in recent years. In ’75, about 24% of Presbyterian ministers were under 35—today its just 7%. Episcopal priests under 35 have dropped from 19% to 4% over the same period. For Roman Catholic priests the rate has ...read more
Tags: Church General
A Mother’s Place Is At Home: 66% of American women with preschool children—and 56% of those with infants less than a year old—are in the labor force, but attitudes toward working mothers have changed little. Various research reports from the Lucile Packard foundation find that 75%-80% of Americans ...read more
Tags: Parenting
There are 60 million grandparents in America. About 75,000 people join the core group–those between the ages of 45 and 69–each month. ...read more
Tags: Family
According to Barna Research, 27% of born-again Christians are either currently or have previously been divorced compared to 24% of ...read more
Tags: Divorce
Wal-Mart sells 23% to 25% of all shampoo sold in the U.S. (Foster Letter ...read more
Tags: Money
Average daily expense per nursing home resident is now $118. (Foster Letter ...read more
God Came On 9/12, a column in the Wall Street Journal began with these words, “In the week since terrorists struck America, the most surprising public appearance hasn’t been made by a political leader, or a grieving celebrity or a foreign dignitary. The most striking ...read more
Tags: God's Provision
Mixed Attitudes & Values: Americans feel emotionally comfortable with their choices but struggle with the consequences of their moral behavior. 74% say they are concerned about the moral condition of the nation. That point of view is only slightly more pronounced among Christians. When asked the ...read more
Tags: Character
Bible Revision: Authorized A team of Vatican scholars has been authorized to review the Dead Sea Scrolls with the intention of revising the Bible. The Guardian says, “The influence of radical Jewish groups who wanted to overthrow Roman rule is likely to be featured in the new Bible, bolstering ...read more
Tags: Bible Influence
Americans Exposure to Christian Stores: · 1% shop them at least weekly. · 2% visit them about 2-3 times a month. · 9% shop them about once a month. · 21% have shopped within the past 6 months (but usually less than monthly). · 31% have shopped one, but not in the past 6 months. · 17% are aware of ...read more
Tags: What Is Evangelism?
Moral Choices: New Barna research finds many adults attitudes conflict with the moral positions of their faith. On abortion, 41% of all adults stated that it should be legal in all or almost all circumstances and 55% said it should not be legal under any circumstances or only in a few special ...read more
Tags: Christian Values
Sending Churches: The Fund for Theological Education has underwritten a study of congregations that consistently send people into ministry. In summary, the following are five characteristics of those congregations: · Lay people are in ministry. Through collaboration with their pastors, lay people ...read more
Scripture: Isaiah 43:18-21
Tags: What Is Evangelism?, Revival
Wal-Mart sold over 315,000 American flags in the first two days following the infamous attack on America compared to 15,000 the same time a year ...read more
Among adults who say they had given 10% or more of their income to churches and related ministries in the past year, 63% lied about their ...read more
Tags: Giving General
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