The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life conducted a survey of evangelical leaders and released the results on their website. There’s a lot there that I’ve been combing through, but I thought it’d be fun to direct your attention to the results and hear from you what you think is interesting, surprising, or noteworthy.
So, take a look and come on back and let us know what you make of these findings.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald is editor of Patrol and author of Not Your Mother's Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better. Follow Fitz on Twitter.
2 Responses to Global Survey of Evangelical Protestant Leaders: You Interpret the Results
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The people at Pew Forum do some very competent and valuable work. It’s interesting to see the results of these surveys. I suspect that since these are answers from Evangelical leaders, the results may be quite different if the same questions were asked of parishioners.
How these results can be interpreted is a whole other matter as cultural, economic and other regional factors probably have a strong influence. And remember that these are evangelicals. The survey does not include Catholic leaders or Orthodox Christians, which would probably further skew the results.
So much data, I wouldn’t know where to begin to try to interpret what these results mean. But it makes for eye-opening reading.
Immediately noticed that respondents are male and older. Definitely doesn’t demonstrate a new evangelical perspective.
Also interesting that global evangelicals fear Muslims and Atheists.