The new minority: Church members

By Starr Munro Riverbend News A new poll released on Monday, March 29, by Gallup Poll, an American analytics and advisory company based out of Washington, D.C., has cited church members as being in minority figures for the first time in eight decades. The analysis examined the decline in church membership over the span of 20 years and recorded that membership is down more than 20 points since the turn of the century. According to the poll, a mere 47 percent of the population identifies as being part of a certain congregation, where as in 1999, the numbers were at 70 percent. The decline was analyzed over three year aggregates and the data collected comes from 6,000 adult American citiz