Hi friends welcome to the Natasha Crane podcast. If you have followed my content

for any amount of time in the last year, you have heard me talk repeatedly

about the jarring statistics related to the shrinking percent of Americans who have a biblical worldview.

I've written and talked about a lot of different studies and numbers, but two of the

most pertinent data points are these. 65% of Americans self-identify as Christians. But research on people's actual beliefs and

behavior shows that only about 6% have a biblical worldview. This huge gap

between those who identify as Christians and those who hold beliefs you might

assume to be consistent with the historic Christian faith has numerous implications for the church

today.

But how exactly do researchers define a biblical worldview?

How do they get to that 6% estimate?

That's a question I have received from many people over the last several months.

Today on the show, I have a guest who is better equipped

to answer that question than anyone else because he directed the research. Joining me

today is Dr. George Barna who's the director of research for Arizona Christian

University's Cultural Research Center. So Dr. Barna, I'm truly excited to talk

with you. I followed your work and consumed your research for many years now and it's an honor to have this

conversation welcome to the show. Well thank you Natasha it's good to be with you.

So the Cultural Research Center puts out a continual stream of fascinating research and I read just about all of it

and I feel like I could talk with you for hours because there is so much to discuss.

But in the interest of brevity we're going to focus on the work you've done with the American

Worldview Inventory, which is what produced the data that I described a couple of minutes ago.

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