In the season of “top stories” of 2011, what do you think the most important religion story of the last year was?
Day: December 30, 2011
Christmas attendance in the UK appears to have gone up
The Church Times reports that attendance at Christmas Services seemed to bump up compared to last year in Great Britain.
Will the church continue to decline in 2012?
Steve McSwain wonders if the church can snap out of its collective insanity? Or will a continuuing inward focus and world-avoiding behavior drive more and more spiritual people away from religion?
Happiness considered
This weekend, the Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, appears on the American Public Media radio program On Being with the Dali Lama, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Muslim scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and host Krista Tippet. The discussion originally took place on the Interfaith Summit on Happiness at Emory University in Atlanta on October 17, 2010.
The liturgical calendar has been unrelenting this week
The banner headline at the Daily Office site I frequent reads: Frances J. Gaudet, Educator and Prison Reformer, 1934. Prison reformer…. The week after The Feast of the Incarnation is usually festive –folks take time off from work, school, or travel to see family and friends and all the like. We still have another week […]