Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
WASHINGTON–At a time when some worry that the Internet is isolating users and replacing traditional communities with virtual ones, a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that many churches and synagogues have found new energy and purpose through use of the Internet. Most of the 1,309 responding congregations say their […]
What spiritual leaders do online Much of the journalism on religion and the Internet to date points out that the Internet gives the site visitor a sense of anonymity – that seekers, particularly those not deeply connected to particular churches or synagogues, may be more willing to go to the Internet than to actually set […]
The advent of congregational sites Among our respondents, Web sites were fairly well established: 44% have been up for over 2 years, and 78% for at least one year. They were generally created on an ad hoc basis by volunteers (66%) rather than as a planned action of the clergy or a committee (27%). Once […]
National Press Club Washington, D.C. Address by: Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) Participants Representative Chet Edwards (D-TX) Representative Mark Souder (R-IN) Azizah Al-Hibri, Professor of Law, University of Richmond David Brooks, Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard David Saperstein, Director, Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism Moderators Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social & […]
Washington, D.C. Panel E.J. Dionne, The Brookings Institution Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Michael Cromartie, The Evangelical Community in American Civic Life project, and the Ethics and Public Policy Center David Devlin-Foltz, The Public Role of Mainline Protestantism project, and the Aspen Institute Alan Mittleman, Center for Jewish Community […]