Part One of this essay, Here Come the Nones, There Go the Nuns?, dealt with the now widely celebrated emergence of a relatively new and widespread kind of religious orientation in our time, with those, especially in younger generations, whoRead More →
A dear friend of mine, a congenital Christian activist, Dave Gagne, now of Minneapolis, who has long been a keen observer of American church life as well as of American life in general, happened to see some statistics about theRead More →
Note: I’m repositioning these thoughts here both for card-carrying Christians and for some of my readers who don’t identify with the mission of the Christian Church or perhaps not with any particular faith tradition at all. For thoseRead More →
A Talk Given November 7, 2020, University Lutheran Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts – All Saints It’s always a delight for me to stand in this pulpit. I stand here today, as a former pastor of this congregation, to thankRead More →