‘Bacon: I wasn’t sure about the Jesus Christ parts of the sermon… I was struggling with whether I believe this….
So if I could find a church, and this may already exist, where the Sunday school is very low on the beliefs of Jesus and very high on the community part, that’s what I’m looking for.
[I’d like a church] focused less on Jesus rising from the dead and more about being compassionate, caring people…
Martin: Do you think though, to even loosely wear the identity of a cultural Christian, don’t you need the resurrection part?’
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America is secularizing at an astonishing rate, and this NPR interview with a young man raised in the Black charismatic church tells you part of the reason why — and it’s a very simple reason: Increasingly, the very content of the Christian faith strikes a lot of people as untrue.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:51PM
Aren’t the Unitarians already providing the social aspects of church without the theology?
September 19th, 2023 at 7:47AM
gasstation: Yes. But their form of churched secularity isn’t all that popular.