American Religion

USA Today put out an article today entitled, Survey: Americans freely change, or drop, their religions. 

Some stats that jumped out to me:

Nearly 20% of all men and 13% of all women say they are unaffiliated. So are 25% of adults under age 30.

All the major Christian denominations are losing numbers fast. Only non-denominational Christian churches [...]

Child’s Play

NPR has a great article on their website on the evolution of how kids play – focusing on how toy-marketing has changed and how the last 50 years or so has proved to be radically different than times of the past.  Check out the article entitled, Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills.
(HT: Zach)

The Reason for God – Part 2

Some of my thoughts on and Keller’s words from Chapter 1 of The Reason for God.

Keller notes that he sees the biggest problem with Christianity as exclusivity.

In most cases, the Christianity that is growing is not the more secularized, belief-thin versions predicted by the sociologists.  Rather, it is a robust supernaturalist kind of faith, with [...]

Culture and Corporation

Neelima Mahajan writes a good article on culture and corporations entitled ‘Steer clear of culture shock.’  There is some good stuff here with regard to how organizations deal with culture. 
“The bigger and more differentiated an organization, the more it needs strong centralisation as well as de-centralisation. Decentralisation operationally, but let the individual units be efficient,” says Schein.