Study: Atheists More Knowledgeable About Religion than Christians

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

According to a new study released by the Pew Research Center, atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.

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Study: More Children Than Ever Being Raised by Grandparents

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

One child in 10 in the United States lives with a grandparent, a share that increased slowly and steadily over the past decade before rising sharply from 2007-08, the first year of the Great Recession, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.

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