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	<title>Black, White and Gray</title>
	
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		<title>Atheists in America – Part 4</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/05/atheists-in-america-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Yancey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/?p=4099</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[                This is the last blog of my series on atheists which is based on a book, co-written with David Williamson, titled There is no God: Atheists in America (Rowman and Littlefield). You can see the first three entries of this series here and here and here. In the past blogs there has been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denominational Change in American Protestantism since 1972</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/05/denominational-change-in-american-protestantism-since-1972/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more robust trends in American Christianity&#8211;at least its Protestant side&#8211;is the decreasing significance of denominations in Christian&#8217;s identity and affiliation. To show this, I used GSS data to divide Protestants into groups by denomination. This the Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians. In addition there is a &#8220;generic&#8221; category of Christians who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheists in America – Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/05/atheists-in-america-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/05/atheists-in-america-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 22:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Yancey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[George Yancey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/?p=4059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[                This is a continuation of my series on atheists which is based on a book I have coming out, co-written with David Williamson, titled There is no God: Atheists in America (Rowman and Littlefield). You can see the first two entries of this series here and here. The comments after those entries are of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Losing the Young? Evangelicals by Age Since 1972 (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/05/are-we-losing-the-young-evangelicals-by-age-since-1972-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/05/are-we-losing-the-young-evangelicals-by-age-since-1972-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I looked at the relationship between age and Evangelical affiliation here in the US. In this post, I want to revisit the topic but use a stronger form of analysis&#8211;cohort analysis. Using data from the General Social Survey, I divided respondents up into five groups&#8211;those born in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“No More Choices, Please!”</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/05/no-more-choices-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margarita A. Mooney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Margarita Mooney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flourishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive sociology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/?p=4025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever felt overwhelmed at the number of choices to buy a salad dressing at the grocery store? Have you ever failed to choose a health care or retirement option just because, well, there were so many options that you couldn&#8217;t pick one? Have you ever searched and searched for the perfect pair of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unethical Wealth</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/unethical-wealth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/unethical-wealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Reynolds</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/?p=4045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Pew Research Center released a report showing wealth has dropped for the bottom 93% of Americans, but for those with wealth levels over about $890,000, wealth has risen by an average of 28% in the last two years.  As the economy starts to recover, it’s clear who is winning and who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and Ethnicity in West, TX</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/faith-ethnicity-west-tx/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/faith-ethnicity-west-tx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[central Texas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czech American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnicity and religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/?p=4016</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite nine years in residence here in central TX, I still feel like a Philadelphian exploring this new place. It’s probably why I remain fascinated by the many sociological and demographic curiosities here. In a recent post I mentioned some of the similarities between second-generation Americans and young white central Texans today. Both struggle with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheists in America – Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/atheist-in-america-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/atheist-in-america-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Yancey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[George Yancey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/?p=4010</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of my series on atheists which is based on a book I have coming out, co-written with David Williamson, titled There is no God: Atheists in America (Rowman and Littlefield). In the first blog I discussed how I collected data on atheists. Now I can dive into the findings. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>66</slash:comments>
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		<title>Texans and Second-Generation Code Switching</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/texans-and-second-generation-code-switching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/texans-and-second-generation-code-switching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[code switching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[second-generation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/?p=4004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post I shared some reflections on the importance of second-generation Asian American research. While attending this conference I had the privilege of spending time getting to know my new colleagues who shared similar research interests. As much as scholarship has an autobiographical influence, it’s not surprising that members of the immigrant and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Losing the Young? Evangelicals by Age Since 1972</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/are-we-losing-the-young-evangelicals-by-age-since-1972/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/04/are-we-losing-the-young-evangelicals-by-age-since-1972/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brad Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evangelical Christianity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/?p=3998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the loudest fear messages that we hear in American Evangelical Christianity is that we&#8217;re losing the young which means that the future of the church is in peril. Christian writers have claimed that 60% of church-going teens drop out after high school, that young people are fleeing the church and thus will crash it, [...]]]></description>
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