Trying to count the Mormon sheep 101 (getreligion)
It's one of the questions that veteran religion writers hear all the time in their newsrooms and usually struggle to answer. You are sitting at your desk and, let's say, a business writer walks up and asks: How many Jews are there in the state of Colorado? Or maybe it's a larger-scale question, such as: How many Southern Baptists are there in the United States, really? Or try this one: News stories keep saying that liberal Protestant churches are in statistical free fall, but does anyone have hard numbers that people on both sides of that debate would agree are accurate? Read more on Trying to count the Mormon sheep 101…
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