Show of Faith

This was the title of an interesting segment on NBC Nightly News from June 23, 2008. Video Courtesy of NBC.

While there have been numerous news segments to survey and comment on the religiosity of Americans, this one stood out to me because of one sentence by Rev. Eugene Rivers (emphasis added):

In some cases, because the American public is not terribly theologically literate, they hold contradictory views because they haven't thought deeply, or been taught deeply, about their faith tradition.

I just thought what a perfect way to summarize that state of faith in our country. We need better thinking. We need better teaching.