What Ryan Burge thinks about demographics
Professor of practice at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, and for two decades the pastor of a small American Baptist church. He writes Graphs About Religion, working through large survey datasets on what Americans believe, whether they belong to anything, and whether they turn up.
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Their wordsEmbracing an approach to religious renewal by encouraging fertility doesn’t seem like a strategy that will move the needle in a significant way.
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