On a recent train ride, I sat next to a young German woman living in the United States. She was raised by atheists, but had a deep religious longing. She was baptized and tried Christianity. Her experience of Christianity in Germany left her wanting something deeper, and through a friend, became a full convert to Islam.
This encounter was particularly intriguing coming so soon after Pew’s study on religion in the public forum. Some media commentators hail the decline of religious participation as a sign of the new order and the death of traditional religion in the U.S.
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