Kenneth Stroupe is the chief of staff at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and the director of the National Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI).

Read an August 28, 2012, article at ChristianityToday.com analyzing the results of a poll analyzing the effects the recession had on churches’ budgets.

Read an April 24, 2000, Washington Post story that discusses a number of poll findings on miracles.

Melinda Lundquist Denton is an assistant professor at the department of sociology at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Her research interests includes family, adolescence & youth and religion & culture . She has researched the intersection of religion and family life in the United States with a focus on the religious lives of adolescents. Dr. […]

See a November 2007 Harris Poll that found that 79 percent of Americans believe in miracles.

Read a March 23, 2011, Religion News Service article describing the steady incline of donations as the economic recession diminishes.

Read a March 22, 2012, Religion News Service article about how churches were affected by the recession.

Cliff Zukin is a political science professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. His research interests include public opinion, mass media & American politics, survey research and research methods.

Scott Keeter is the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in Washington, D.C. He co-wrote the book The Diminishing Divide: Religion’s Changing Role in American Politics.