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Ten Predictions for Religion in 2012

1. Religion will be increasingly polarized. Religion will be increasingly polarized around conflicting views of solutions to the problems confronting individuals in a rapidly changing society.  A significant number of people will turn to the past, seeking anchorage and solace in older, more traditional forms of religious practice.  Evangelicals who are burned out on the entertainment orientation of mega-churches will turn to more liturgical traditions, including Catholicism, or will drop out of church-going altogether. Alienated mainline Christians who reject their denomination’s “secular” moral views related to homosexuality, abortion, and the roles of women will leave, further weakening the struggling “old-line” Protestant denominations. Read More