American religious life is in ferment, not decline. The changes range from the increasing religious diversity brought by new immigrant groups, through the ebbing importance of denominations, to the impact of large, often independent megachurches on the worship, music styles and ministries of all kinds of churches. No one has helped us understand this ferment better than Robert Wuthnow.
We are coming to the close of the season of HallowThanksMas. It begins the last week of October and extends until Christmas Day. At the end of October the children are loaded up on sugar that doesn't seem to leave their systems until early January. Shopping centers have Christmas decorations up in mid-October, and then the materialistic press to buy more and more sets in.
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Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People
Dorothy C. Bass, ed.
Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life
Miroslav Volf and Dorothy C. Bass, eds.
Way to Live: Christian Practices for Teens
Dorothy C. Bass and Don C. Richter, eds.
Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time
Dorothy C. Bass
Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice
Stephanie Paulsell
Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
The Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith, based at Valparaiso University in Indiana, has been encouraging people to think about and live the communal practices that form Christian existence.
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