America is the great experiment in Protestant social thought, but the society Protestants created now threatens to make Protestantism unintelligible to itself. Put as directly as I can, I believe we may be living at a time when we are watching Protestantism, at least the kind of Protestantism we have in America, come to an end. It is dying of its own success.
We reported on the latest Barna research earlier this week. But one of the most surprising observations of this year’s update to the survey was
“This is about accepting the importance of faith, not certain religions, in the lives of consumers and to incorporate that into marketing decisions.”
How much involvement should clergy have in politics? It depends what you mean by politics.
Happy Independence Day, everyone. Expect light posting today. But if you are looking for some good reading, visit America’s Sacred Ground, the Huffington Post’s July 4 collection.
Grace Cathedral in Topeka had a traditional, sparsely attended Fourth of July service for years. And then their new Organist and Choirmaster arrived. A few changes, and now the service draws people from all over the state.
Daniel Burke describes the Unitarian-Universalist Church as a “creedless church” and wonders if this “virtually unprecedented experiment” of advancing a religion without doctrine can survive another 50 years.
David Sloan Wilson started studying the varieties of human living environments by trying to understand why some city neighborhoods are “good” and some are “bad”.
Given all the other news right now not many people have been following the story this week that Goshen College, a small historically Mennonite college
Public support for congregations endures today in several forms, including exemption from direct taxation and a variety of indirect benefits like the charitable tax deduction and the clergy housing allowance