The conservative research and polling group, Barna, have encountered a separate group of folks in the US who do not attend church. There is a group out there in the US who have religious beliefs and aren’t affiliating with churches. They believe in God and practice their faith on their own, apart from the Church.
The American Bible Society hired the Barna Group, a conservative research & polling organization, to examine “teens’ perceptions of the Bible, the role they believe it should play in American public life and their level of personal engagement with it.” The published research is the 2016 Teen State of the Bible.
In JAN 2016 we covered a preliminary release of a major study of the use of pornography in the US. The study was conducted by the Barna Group in 2015. The study had been commissioned by the Josh McDowell Ministries. The Barna Group has released the ten main findings of the research in a report.
Last summer, the Barna Group, the conservative Christian research and polling organization, was commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministries, also conservative Christians, to research the observation and use of pornography in today’s highly sexualized culture.
Take a look at surveys recently released by the Public Religion Research Institute about the War on Christmas and then by the Barna Group on how folks personally define marriage.
The influence of Christianity on the US is waning as the number of folks who are post-Christian has increased by 7% in just the last two years