ATHEISTS AND AGNOSTICS,
Jews and Mormons, are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants, and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history, and leading figures of major world religions.
A PRAYER TAKES JUST A MATTER OF SECONDS
to utter, but its influence in our lives, on our behavior, on our hearts, on our perceptions, can be permanent.
FOR YEARS, CHURCHES across the USA have prayed that more young people would explore careers in ministry as a wave of Baby Boomer pastors prepares to retire.
with contributions from Kay Campbell, Donna St. George
WHEN WILLIAM THORNTON
goes to work in the morning, all he can see is a cross lifted against the sky as he swings around the steeple of First Methodist Church 100 feet above the petty concerns of the city.