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Who’s To Blame For Christian Bookstore Closures?
Posted with permission from WND
As one writer put it, Amazon warlord Jeff Bezos deserves much of the credit for turning most independent bookstores into karate schools or bakeries. But there is another, more specific reason Family Christian Stores is gone.
They did it to themselves.
New Study: Worlds Fastest Growing Religion? No Religion
New Study: Worlds Fastest Growing Religion? No Religion
A recent global survey conducted by National Geographic shows that the world’s fastest growing religion is not Islam or Christianity, but no religion at all – atheism. The study comes in conjunction with Nat. Geo’s new television series “The Story of God” starring Morgan Freeman which travels the world chronicling religious beliefs practiced by different cultures. With the global headlines
Read MoreMillennials & The Church | What To Expect From The Next Generation
It is commonly said that the youth – also primarily referred to by the term ‘Millennials’ – are the future of the church. It has also been said that the youth are not just its future but its present – at the very core of the church and its current vibrancy. Whichever the case, are there any indications of what role these Millennials will play in the church after the present generation? Or how the church will eventually shape them? Christian Post reporter Kevin Porter recently posed the question: ‘Can a church survive without young people?’ Porter notes that Millennials comprise 20 percent of the entire U.S. population with 83 million people — even more than Baby Boomers — and by 2020 this figure will grow to 30 percent. This group is “a progressive bunch who is the most racially diverse generation with 60 percent Anglo and 15 percent immigrants; the most educated with more college degrees than any generation in history, and the most single”.
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