Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts
…, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. That won’t be a surprise to most Americans, but the extent to which the SBC depends on this “base” might be: since 1950, about 75-80 percent of the total membership has lived in those states. Texas alone makes up almost 20 percent of the total.* And here the trouble begins. If you look at the rate of growth—not the total number of people…
Read More