George Barna

George Barna is an American Christian researcher and author. He is the founder of the Barna Group and the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University. Barna has written extensively on the topic of spiritual decline in the United States and has been a prominent voice on the issue of secularism. He has also been a key figure in the development of the concept of the 'nones' - a term used to describe people who identify as non-religious. Barna has received numerous awards for his work, including the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's Gold Medallion Award.