RSSPew Forum: Religion in America
C Brown
Results of the 2008 survey have been released. One highlight: about 44% of American adults have switched religious affiliation at some point (including those who have switched from one branch of Protestantism to another). I fall into this category, as do several of the participants on this blog. Will our children do the same? I hope not. After all this upheaval (which has greatly impacted the RPCNA), we need to settle down and find some continuity.
HT: Rod Dreher
njrayes
February 25th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I think it is very telling that the survey refers to the “American religious marketplace.” It makes me think of Jesus cleansing the temple. Perhaps one key to continuity is that our churches be or become houses of prayer.
W.H. Chellis
February 26th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Charles has noticed the giant pink elephant in the room. All this religious immigration is in some sense a product of our culture’s general sense of mobility. Are we just a bunch of individualists who have chosen religious traditions that suite our present needs? Will our children continue our patterns of flux and chaos? Or will we be able to put down real roots that will be intergenerational?
This is the most important question of the hour. Here lies an invisible danger far more worrisome than either the New Perspective on Paul or the Federal Vision.