Day: March 28, 2011

Numbers worth watching

Church attendance is declining and those who go to church are getting older. In some places, religious affiliation may disappear altogether. That is the consensus of a blog looking at a recent study by the Episcopal Church, another looking at religious attendance in England, and a third study looking at religious affiliation around the globe.

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Atlanta’s Call to Action

One.org highlights the efforts by the Diocese of Atlanta to restore funding for programs that help children and the poor that have been cut in federal budget negotiations.

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An era is ending in South Africa

There is a feeling here, hard to miss even for a visitor, that an era is ending in South Africa, that the immediate post-apartheid period is drawing to a close, that the great leaders of that time are nearing the ends of their lives, and that the nation is looking with hope and trepidation into the great what’s next. One senses this especially in the emphasis on recapturing a sense of purpose and reclaiming a sense of responsibility for the future that is theme or subtext through numerous public campaigns and events.

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Everything visible and invisible

I wish I could hear these words for the first time. Familiar as they are, they thrill me with their exult¬ant strength whenever I read them anew. They open up new vistas of hope and happiness, of greatness and immortality, of a world exalted, completed, unified, made Christian wholly and irrevocably. They set their own seal upon their authenticity. Under their spell we move out into life with the joyous sting of certainty goading us on to renewed effort to do the great bidding of winning the nations of the earth to Him.

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