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RELIGION SITE VISITS DROP Visits to religion websites in the U.S. are declining rapidly, dropping over 30% within the past year, down 35% the last two years, while visits to entertainment sites like MySpace and Facebook continue to soar. Visits to the top 1,200 religious sites in the U.S. accounted ...read more
Tags: Technology
ALBUMS DYING Last year, digital singles outsold plastic CDs for the first time. So far in '07, sales of digital songs have risen 54%, to roughly 189 million units, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Digital album sales are rising at a slightly faster pace, but buyers of digital music are purchasing ...read more
LifeWay Worship Music Group is creating the ultimate worship resource, an electronic hymnal with an initial collection of 1,000 hymns to be released in '08. The project is one of the largest ...read more
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Big Idea Productions' parent Classic Media Holdings, Inc. has been acquired by U.K.-based Entertainment Rights, owner of rights to many characters, including Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, Postman Pat, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. VeggieTales officials say the organization has a ...read more
Tags: Television And Movies
Public School Courses on the Bible are now offered in 460 school districts in 37 states. Polls find that over 60% of Americans favor secular teaching about the Bible. The Bible so pervades Western culture that the "new consensus" for secular Bible study argues that ...read more
Tags: Bible Study
FATHERHOOD The National Organization for Women has filed a complaint with the Health and Human Services Dept., saying a program intended to promote responsible fatherhood is ...read more
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EDITORS EVOLVE As print's dominance wanes, publishers are asking editors to expand their skill sets and become much more public brand stewards. The volume of content and pages online is not just two or three times that in print, it is 50 to 1,000 times, states Steve Fox, Editor and chief of ...read more
More than 80% of formerly churched folks do not have a strong belief in ...read more
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Over 60% of Americans favor teaching about Scripture in a secular setting like public ...read more
Tags: School
Political liberals are more than twice (47%) as likely not to be churched as are political ...read more
Single adults are more likely than married adults to stay away from religious services (37% versus 29%, ...read more
24% of formerly churched people consider themselves "spiritual, but not ...read more
42% of formerly churched people consider themselves "Christian, but not particularly ...read more
Tags: Character
A 3/07 Zogby Poll finds nearly 80% of Americans feel there is too much sex, violence and coarse ...read more
The life expectancy of a police officer in the U.S. is 57 years vs. 64 for a ...read more
Tags: Stress
The national divorce rate for cops is ...read more
Tags: Marriage Struggle
A police officer under extreme stress is five times more likely to take his own life than to be shot in the ...read more
The U.S. Department of Education reports that 1.1 million, or 2.2% of all U.S. children, are ...read more
Recent studies show there are now more Muslims in Europe than ...read more
Tags: Islam
TRADITIONAL FAMILY IS ALIVE Of the nation's 73 million children, nearly 45 million (62%) live with their biological parents, according to the Census Bureau. Another 19 million live with their unmarried, biological mothers. Based on '04 surveys, the report also shows cohabiting families are on the ...read more
Tags: Family