As I said in the conclusion to my last post, in Gallup’s decades-long practice of polling Americans on religions topics, for the first time less than half of respondents said religion was an important factor in their lives. After peak...

This past Sunday I went to church for the first time in months. I wanted to see what the new interim pastoral team (a retired married couple) at the nearby ELCA church was like. And it was the first Sunday of Advent, which is perhaps my favorite liturgical season. Though I didn’t really think of it this way, attending worship after a prolonged absence was also a good preparat...

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