the happy heretic

Weeping for the Dying Church

I was in Tacoma Washington in the 1980’s. As I left my hotel to have dinner with the host of a convention I was to address the next morning, I noticed a very large number of people gathering in my hotel for a meeting that night. My host informed me that a Moral Majority Rally was to take place and he had been very involved in the planning and promotion of that meeting. I urged him to attend, and I would have room service for my meal, but he refused and took me and his wife to a restaurant away from the hotel.

He was a very committed Christian and saw the Moral Majority as an answer to prayer and the foundation of hope for our country and for the Christian faith. I listened with care and interest as he explained the hopes and dreams of the movement. The idea that Christians could bind together and vote together to have influence and even control of the government seemed to be a thrilling concept to him.

Doug ManningApril 25, 2022The Happy Heretic, Happy Heretic, church, dying church, moral majority, evangelical

Salt

The fastest growing segment of the U. S. population are people who do not affiliate or attend church. They are called the “Nones”. The number has grown from 14 million in 1990 to almost one fourth of the U.S. population in 2014. If they were a denomination they would be second largest behind the Evangelicals which are made up of several groups. Catholics would be third and Baptist fourth.

Doug ManningJuly 12, 2018Doug Manning, Happy Heretic, Salt, Salty Christians, Beatitudes, church