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Major Religious Survey Reveals Large Turnover Rates
Check out the article from Time here.
Check out the survey here.
And if your a former JW like myself, you will be interested in this quote from the article; “An even more extreme example of what might be called “masked churn” is the relatively tiny Jehovah’s Witnesses, with a turnover rate of about two-thirds. That means [...]
A Black Squirrel
The other day James noticed a pitch black squirrel running about in our neighborhood with all of his little grey friends. The city that I grew up in hosted quite a few albino squirrels, but I had never seen a black one. It looked odd, like a small skunk without the white stripe, [...]
Scrambling
Looks like the bank finally got on the ball. They are likely going to accept the first offer that came in on our house. We signed the papers today. The people wanted to close March 1st, but we are going to try to push it to the 14th. I knew it [...]
Obama Mama
As a J-Dub we were supposed to remain neutral in the matter of politics. Of course James and I have never been neutral about anything in our lives, but we played the part and stayed away from voting at least. Now that we are “allowed” to vote, it is proving to be a [...]
Spiritual Exploration
James and I are entered into this program at our local library where we have to read five books before March 1st. If we read five books, we get a small prize and then we get entered into a contest to win a larger prize. We already got a cowboy dinner and a [...]