The Data Road Trip kicks into high gear this weekend as our team sets out for Lincoln, Nebraska; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Sneedville, Tennessee. Stay tuned for video blogs from the road (just don’t call them “vlogs,”) as well as some good, old-fashioned QWERTY. And in [see entire entry...]

I’ve tuned the radio to one of the Christian talk stations out of Salt Lake City to prime myself with Biblical perspectives on sex. The timing is perfect: it is the story of Esau, who sold his birthright in a weak moment of desire. Pleasure and passion, the preacher cautions, are the [see entire entry...]

Built in the 1950s, St. Petes has withstood Chicago’s awe-inspiring skyline. This photo was taken and posted with one of our Nokia phones, which the News21 Berkeley crew will be using to report their stories while on the road.
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Of the 3,000-some counties in the United States, which is the least churched? Survey says … Jackson County, Oregon.
That’s according to the exhaustive “Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000,” issued by the Catholic-affiliated Glenmary Research Center.
The 564-page Glenmary report will be a bible of sorts for us Data Road Trippers this summer; it maps the nation’s adherents county-by-county, faith-by-faith. But, as in the case of Jackson, [see entire entry...]

This little church is over one-hundred years old and lives in Loving County, TX, the least populated county in the US. With a whopping 80 residents, Loving is located in the West Texas desert and is roughly the size of Houston.
A phone call to the sheriff revealed that this church is non-denominational and still holds service on Saturdays for the [see entire entry...]