In western countries today, the anti-choice movement wants women to bear children to reverse declining population levels and mitigate the effects of an ageing demographic. Invoking CO is one strategy to achieve this goal. But history provides ample evidence of the ineffectiveness of such restrictive...
Is Church Attendance Declining?Hunter Baker
And remember, we’re not talking about the Fed creating an artificial environment for a few months.They’ve been doing it for most of 15 years.And every time the system began to break down, the Fed would do even MORE extreme versions of these policies… which in turn made the...
democratically. Liberalism flourishes in an atmosphere of prosperity and declines as declining prosperity makes it necessary for the government to intervene ever more frequently and drastically in the affairs of its subjects. Over-population and over-organization are two conditions which, as I have ...
When you are in the midst of troubling life events like the death of a loved one or pet, the loss of a job, declining health, financial problems, and/or relationship issues, a strong and resilient faith may be just what is missing from your life. The ultimate goal of Christian ...
the Church itself has evolved, not always in the best directions, e.g., social issue polarization, declining church attendance, (according to Barna Group's research) fewer Christians who understand and live based upon a Christian worldview. So, fixing the plank in our own eye before worrying...
him unable to effectively lead, and the US Conference of Bishops seemed so fixated on sexual morality and abortion that the broader revolutionary message of Christianity—about the poor and the outcast—became less of a voice crying out in the wilderness than a bare whisper in an empty room. ...
I would like to come to the end of this sequence by doing boldly all the things I can still do. I want to be careful, but I don’t want to be timid. I want to live in the constrained environment of my declining mind and my declining body by doing boldly all the things I can ...
See alsoChurch Revitalization Triage: What’s the First Step to Save a Declining Church? Sixteen is often a pivotal age for those dropping out of church. At that age, the attendance rates start to diverge for those who stay in church as adults and those who drop out. The next few yea...
While the majority of the Italian population self-identify as Catholic, reli- gious commitment is declining (Introvigne & Zoccatelli, 2021), and it is uncommon for a political leader to publicly display religiosity. This chapter will use the example of Salvini's Twitter account to discuss how...