There's the church, and there's the steeple. Where're all the people?
The decline of the American church leaves a difficult task in front of us all, shoring up our civic life with institutions capable of filling the void.
Two Jews and a Christian are talking about the future of church in America.
It’s not the start of a joke, it’s actually what happened on my front porch recently. It was a nuanced conversation, something that might be missing from many conversations about religion in our modern political climate, and there was plenty for us all to disagree about.
But there was one thing upon which we all agreed—the American church, on balance, has been a net-negative to the United States in the past 40 years.
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