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Vermont's Religious Identity: Past And Future

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Trinity Episcopal Church was built in Shelburne in 1866.

A new study of religion in America has a few big takeaways. The number of Christians is declining, though still very much a majority. The number of those who call themselves religiously "unaffiliated" is on the rise. Vermont, meanwhile, has a higher percentage of those unaffiliated than any other state. What accounts for that statistic?

We're unpacking the numbers and looking at Vermont's religious identity. We talk to the Pew Research Center's Gregory Smith, Vermont historian Jeffrey Potash, and Middlebury religion scholar Rebecca Kneale Gould.

Also, we talk to Charlie Rattigan of the Vermont Institute of National Science on the Institute's new exhibit on the evolution of dinosaurs into birds.

And - jumping rocks and avoiding roots - we hear from a group of women mastering mountain biking right in Rutland's Pine Hill Park.

Broadcast live on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.