Sublime

Organized religion attracts a continuously shrinking percentage of each successive generation since World War II. Ours is not a turnaround situation, and we have little that we can return to.

At the heart of the operative moral polestar is the freedom of the individual. In contrast, embedded in our institutions are constraints on the individual.

of the American population, their influence has become enormous; again far disproportionate to their size.

With Rosa and Charles Taylor, I’m maintaining that our shared and contested sense of the good life is fundamental to our ways of being in the world. Therefore, I agree that technological acceleration has shifted the imagination of the church.

“We need a conversion of morals,” the elderly man said. “Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a great saint - some enlightened common sense. Otherwise, we’ll never have the right answers when the pressure groups - those racists, super-patriots, whatever you want to call them - tag every move toward racial justice as co

The formerly religious middle began to join the budding ranks of the nones.

“In redirecting American Protestantism from saving souls to saving society, the social gospelers enlarged and transformed the idea of Christian redemption.”

Concern for Nominal Christians of Specific Types

Frank Schalow