ITEMS OF INTEREST July 3, 2006 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

"BACKING UP [THEIR] REPUTATION as a highly religious people, half of all American adults said that their life has been 'greatly transformed' by their religious faith. This is one of the results from a new survey by The Barna Group based on a nationwide telephone survey among a representative sample of more than 2,000 adults.

"Overall, 51 percent of the survey respondents said they have been greatly transformed by their faith, about one-fourth (28 percent) said their faith has been helpful but has not produced significant transformation, and nearly one out of five (17 percent) claimed their faith has not made much of a difference in their life....

"There were significant correlations between claiming to have experienced faith-driven transformation and engagement in various faith-oriented behaviors. For instance, people who read the Bible regularly were more than twice as likely as those who do not to have undergone faith-based transformation, and the same pattern was true among those who attend a church regularly compared to those who do not....

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