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Church Friendships


The Emerging Order, Rifkin and Howard, p. 115

A survey done by sociologists Glock and Stark found that among evangelicals, over half of their close friends are likely to belong to the same congregation, whereas among liberal churchgoers, such as Presbyterians and Congregationalists, few or none of their close friends are likely to be members of their local church.