By Kirk Petersen Commentary ASA is never going to be the same. Average Sunday attendance has long been the gold standard among data geeks for measuring the size of a church. Everybody's ASA cratered in March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, so to try to maintain a semblance of apples-to-apples in the data, churches were asked to report average attendance for just the … [Read more...] about Pandemic Skews Parochial Report Data
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Ethics: Christian Socialism
By Simon Cuff Socialism is a dirty word. In politics on both sides of the Atlantic, socialism is perceived as an unhelpful label for a politician seeking election to public office. During election periods, the specter of socialism is invoked to suggest images of failed regimes, large queues of unemployed people, state surveillance, and an environment hostile to religion and … [Read more...] about Ethics: Christian Socialism
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By Elizabeth Baumann A Reading from the Gospel of Matthew 9:18-26 18 While he was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader of the synagogue came in and knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.” 19 And Jesus got up and followed him, with his disciples. 20 Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from … [Read more...] about Only/More