"A research sociologist uses statistics to reveal the state of the Evangelical Church, showing that the church is in better shape than the secular and Christian media claims"--Provided by publisher.

Why do we hear so much bad news about Christianity? -- Is American Christianity on the brink of extinction? -- Are we losing our young people? What will happen in the future? -- Are evangelicals all poor, uneducated, southern whites? -- Do Christians think and do Christian things? -- Have Christians gone wild? -- Do Christians love others? -- What do non-christians think of us? -- What do we make of it all? -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: identifying evangelical Christians -- Appendix 2: data sets -- Appendix 3: bivariate vs. multivariate analysis -- Appendix 4: statistical significance.