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POLL: Do you stretch the truth about your church attendance?

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May 20, 2014

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The sanctuary today at Free Welcome Christian Church on Sellerstown Road near Whiteville, N.C. The church has spent the past 35 years trying to recover from bombings and shootings there in the 1970s.

A recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that you probably skipped church. And then one and seven of you lied about it.

According to the survey, the three groups were most likely to inflate attendance were:

– White mainline Protestants: By phone, 29 percent say they don’t go to church. Online, that jumps to 45 percent.

– Catholics: On the phone, 15 percent. Online, 33 percent.

– Adults ages 18-29: On the phone, 31 percent. Online, 49 percent.

What about you? Do you stretch the truth about your church attendance? It’s just an unscientific survey here, no one will know.

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Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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