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Not Everyone Leaving Churches is Leaving the Church
Matthew Green has just posted a very interesting article, “The Church Dropout,” which looks at the growing number of people choosing no longer to attend church, despite not having lost their faith, choosing less formal meetings or other forms of participation in Christian community. The article addresses several important ecclesiological issues brought up by... »
Articles I’ve been reading lately
Due to term papers, I’ve not been able to keep up with blogging much, but here are the articles I’ve been wanting to blog about of late: Swimming Without A Suit (NY Times Op-Ed, Thomas Friedman): An excellent piece about the failure of the American education system and its impact on the financial future... »
Church Shopping and Consumer Religion
Andrew Santella has an interesting piece on Slate.com about Americans’ consumer approach to churches (The Church Search: Why American churchgoers like to shop around). He makes a few standard observations about the angst often showed towards the phenomenon—go to just about any church and you’ll hear warnings about the dangers of such “spiritual consumerism”... »
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