Christianity Still in Decline Says Pew Poll

The latest Pew Research Center’s Survey of Religion in America, an Update on America’s Changing Religious Landscape, was released in October (see it here: https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/ ). The findings, on the surface, are not encouraging for Christians. The results clearly show a continued decline in the percentage of adult Americans…
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Are Christian Beliefs Allowed in the Public Square?

Every Fall, at the beginning of the school year, there are a couple of different Christian efforts that play out in high schools around the country – and even around the world. Both of these see significant participation each year. One of the events is called “See You at the…
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The Fall of Christian Values

Recently, the Wall Street Journal did a poll in America dealing with the topics of children, religion, and patriotism. The purpose of the poll was to get a read on people’s attitudes about these topics. They also polled these same questions back in 1998. This gives us the ability to…
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What’s New with Cults and Sects in America? – Part 4

In this four part series we have tried to bring our readers up-to-date on some of the largest cult and sect movements in America. The first installment updated information on two groups: Armstrongism (the legacy or Herbert W. Armstrong’s bizarre interpretations of the Bible) and the Church of Jesus Christ…
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What’s New with Cults and Sects in America?: Part 1

If you have been a follower of the MarketFaith Ministries website, have read books about cults, or attended a conference on cults and sects, then you are probably pretty informed about those movements in America. Nonetheless, it may have been a while since you paid much attention to what is…
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The Separation of Church and State Fallacy

In the early 1600s, there was a considerable amount of religious persecution in Europe. Virtually all of the countries of Europe at that time had a state church that was politically connected to the government itself. There were those, however, who believed that the teachings of the state church were…
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