The Constitution comes directly from the government instituted by Moses when he led the Children of Israel out of Egypt. That system was re-instituted in England around 450 A.D. by the Anglo-Saxon rulers Hengist and Horsa. The Founding Fathers, led by Thomas Jefferson, copied the Constitution directly from the ‘ancient constitution’ of the Anglo-Saxons.
The 20th annual study by Empty Tomb Inc. reaffirmed a “long-term turning inward of congregations” exhibited by a dwindling share of church donations spent on benevolence and evangelism. It also found a dip in money given to churches during the 2008 recession, even while donations to religious organizations overall increased.
Early voting seems, if anything, to depress turnout. Could the same be true for pledges?
Andrew Greeley has written in final book and in it he says that Chicago Catholics like the Pope, respect the church but don’t like being told how to conduct their sex lives and think the mass is deadly dull.
A hospital chapel at San Francisco General Hospital has been transformed into an open, comforting space for people of every faith…or of no faith.
An examination of the aggregate data indicates that the amount raised per individual member is very similar between synagogues and churches. But the level of participation is quite different: While synagogues require roughly the same amount of dues from each of their members, church giving does not appear to be so evenly distributed.
We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.
If there were urgent-care centers for people who’ve flipped their lids watching too much Fox News or MSNBC, the nurses there would strap these frantic citizens to gurneys and administer “God in America” via a nice, slow IV drip, like a powerful PBS antibiotic.
“If we don’t measure things or look at the calendar, we have a tendency to let things slide and say, ‘Tomorrow is soon enough,’ or, ‘Eternity is soon enough.’ It’s not. It’s not. We’ve got work to do in this life.”
What better time than the Sunday before Columbus Day to bring attention to the Doctrine of Discovery – the concept that colonial powers own the land they find despite who’s been there already for thousands of years.