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Jul 14, 2025
It’s been almost a year since we closed the doors for good at the First Baptist Church of Mount Vernon, Illinois. I’m still not over it.
It was a congregation established...
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May 28, 2025
As you can plainly see, the relationship between weekly church attendance and education is a positive one. Among those with a high school diploma, only 23% indicate they attend...
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May 13, 2025
One of the most important questions that one has to ask in doing data work is pretty simple, “Compared to what?” If I make a graph that visualizes the partisanship...
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Apr 7, 2025
There’s this inherent tension in doing survey research. We are trying to get people to explain their thinking about things. I don’t know if that’s always...
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Mar 27, 2025
It’s something that I’ve noted before, but let me mention this again - the United States Census Bureau has launched a new survey that is not just about counting...
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Mar 11, 2025
Afew weeks ago, the Pew Research Center released the results of its most recent Religious Landscape Survey. The survey is one of the most important data sources for people studying...
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Mar 7, 2025
The biggest story in American religion is the dramatic rise of the “nones”—people who say they are atheist, agnostic or have no particular religious faith. The...
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Feb 3, 2025
Public opinion is a weird thing. On some topics, it’s incredibly stable over time. That was the case for abortion for decades.
I remember leading a discussion about that in...
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Jan 27, 2025
A few years ago I was talking to an editor of a major newspaper who had to make some tough decisions about what topics his reporters would cover and what stories would make the front...
