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Apr 7 / 5:36pm
Evangelical Christian unversity tops state in federal aid.
Liberty University students received approximately $445 million in federal financial aid money last fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Education data, making LU the top recipient in Virginia.
Mar 23 / 4:55pm
Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says.
The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation.
The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.
The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.
via bbc.co.uk
Nov 29 / 6:14am
Daniel Dennett on Secret Nonbelievers - The Emily Rooney Show
A Godless Clergy: Faith in God—and holding fast to it despite your fears and doubts—is a central tenet of nearly every religion. But what if the head of your church doesn’t believe? Tufts University professor Daniel Dennet joins us to talk about the growing number of priests and clergy who no longer believe in God. Why do they continue to preach? And what does that mean for the people they serve?
via wgbh.org
Oct 6 / 5:56am
Oct 4 / 5:58am
The Unbelievable Truth: Why America has become a nation of religious know-nothings
...when discussing our first pilot study of closeted non-believing (or other-believing) clergy, we often heard two jokes about the seminary experience that was part of the training of most clergy: "If you emerge from seminary still believing in God, you haven't been paying attention," and "Seminary is where God goes to die.
via nydailynews.com
Sep 30 / 11:52am
Interviews with preachers who don't believe.
Dennett also proposes a new interpretation of theological liberalism. Noting that many modern people claim to be Christians while holding to virtually no specific theological content, Dennett suggests that their mode of faith should not be described as "belief," but rather as "believing in belief.
Sep 28 / 9:27am
Whodathunkit?!: Survey finds Atheists are most knowledgeable about religion - msnbc.com
A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.
via msnbc.msn.com
Sep 27 / 6:15am
