FOUR MEGA-TRENDS Changing America’s Religious Landscape [And keeping religion newswriters’ jobs interesting] David A. Roozen Hartford Seminary Institute for Religion Research Presented at the Religion Newswriters Association Annual Meeting Boston, MA, September, 2001 Graphics For:

FOUR MEGA-TRENDS Changing America’s Religious Landscape [And keeping religion newswriters’ jobs interesting] David A. Roozen Hartford Seminary Institute for Religion Research Presented at the Religion Newswriters Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, September, 2001 From ECUMENICAL to INTERFAITH From PROPHETIC to POLITICAL From WORD to SPIRIT From MISSION to WORSHIP

Ecumenical Worship and Social Outreach Based on the Faith Communities Today national survey of 14,301 congregations. fact.hartsem.edu Percent of Congregations

Interfaith Worship and Social Outreach Based on the Faith Communities Today national survey of 14,301 congregations. fact.hartsem.edu Percent of Congregations

Percent of Congregations Reporting Conflict In the Five years Prior to the Survey Based on the Faith Communities Today national survey of 14,301 congregations. fact.hartsem.edu Some Level of Any Kind of Conflict Some Level of Conflict With Decision Making Serious Level of Any Kind of Conflict

Percent High Vitality Congregations By Presence or Absence of Conflict in Prior 5 Years Based on the Faith Communities Today national survey of 14,301 congregations. fact.hartsem.edu Some Level of Any Kind Of Conflict Present No Reported Conflict

Percent High Vitality Congregations Within Expressive and Cognitive Protestant Denominations Based on the Faith Communities Today national survey of 14,301 congregations. fact.hartsem.edu

Percent High Vitality Congregations By Inspirational Level of Worship: All Congregations Based on the Faith Communities Today national survey of 14,301 congregations. fact.hartsem.edu

Percent High Social Involvement Congregations By Inspirational Level of Worship: Liberal Protestant Based on the Faith Communities Today national survey of 14,301 congregations. fact.hartsem.edu