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The God Test
January 17, 2016 @ 11:15 am - 2:00 pm
The Spiritual Life Committee invites you to take the God test following Sanctuary worship on Sun., Jan. 17, in Room 234. Lunch will be served.
Despite the hype surrounding the “New Atheism,” the United States remains one of the world’s most religious nations. In fact, as many as 95% of Americans believe in God—a rare consensus in American life. The nation’s greatest rifts are not between atheists and believers, or between those of different faiths. What divides us is how we conceive God and the role God plays in our lives.
Drawing on the most comprehensive and illuminating survey of Americans’ religious beliefs ever conducted, Baylor University professors, Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, argue that many of America’s most intractable social and political divisions arise from religious convictions held deeply but rarely discussed. Working with original survey data from thousands of Americans and a wealth of in-depth interviews, Froese and Bader trace America’s cultural diversity to its ultimate source—differing beliefs about God. They show that regardless of religious tradition (or lack thereof), Americans typically worship God in one of four distinct divine expressions, definitions of God that form the basis of our worldviews and are among the most powerful predictors of our feelings on America’s contentious issues.
Join us as the Rev. Mary Lynn Callahan leads us in an exploration of America’s “four Gods.”
