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No Atheists in Foxholes
StaffJuly 28, 2010
How can churches incarnate the Gospel in their communities in touch economic times? Why do people from different socio-economic classes tend to be drawn to different types of churches?
Newsweek recently published an interesting article that talks about the relationship between the climate of the economy with church attendance. Below is an excerpt.
The interplay between prosperity—and poverty—and religious observance has become a recent fascination of a small number of economists and other social scientists, for understanding these patterns can help us better predict the future. Do hard times produce more fundamentalists? Do prosperous times produce more do-gooders? Will a lengthy economic slump pull people into the pews to pray for jobs and ladle soup for needier neighbors? Or will it keep people at home on the couch, nursing psychic wounds and cursing their creator?
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