Washington — A Pew Research study released in mid-November found that one out of every five Americans share their faith online on a weekly basis.
It seems like a lot more than that to Chris Canary, a minister at First Baptist Church, Norman, Okla. “Being in the Bible belt it seems like there’s at least a few times a day that someone puts something about their faith on Facebook,” said Canary, 27, the interim contemporary worship minister at the church.
Americans are increasingly finding social media to be a — if not the — place to tell their friends and the world about their spiritual beliefs, the Pew study found.
It reported that 20 percent of Americans said they shared their faith on social networking websites or apps, including Facebook and Twitter, in the previous week. Nearly 50 percent said they had seen others doing so.
Those figures, Pew reported, nearly rival the numbers of Americans (23 percent) who say they watch religious television programs. However, they still trail the 40 percent who said they shared their faith “offline, in a real-life setting.”
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