AMERICAN EVANGELICALS
(Tuesday) Some interesting tidbits from the people at Religion & News Weekly. Among them:

+ Roughly one-in-five likely white evangelical voters (23%) say they are Democrats or lean Democrat.

+ Pope John Paul II is viewed more favorably by all evangelicals (59%) than either Falwell or Robertson.

+ Only 14% of Americans belong to congregations that are larger than 1000 members, the same as non-evangelical Protestants, and almost one-in-five evangelicals (19%) attend a church with less than 100 members.

+ An overwhelming majority of all evangelicals (84%) believe that personal faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation, compared with 38% of Catholics and 56% of non-evangelical Protestants. Just half of white evangelicals, however, believe that only born-again Christians go to heaven, and even fewer black evangelicals (42%) say they believe only born-again Christians will go to heaven.