She is so much his friend that he came to her birthday party last week.
About four years of grim policies:
There's a smug feeling around here right now--I can just catch it in the air--all those Evangelicals are settling in with their man, because God answered their prayers.
Their church signs are positively euphoric of late: "Support our President while he prays!"
I worry about this: our staid Episcopal Church is losing members every week to the big Evangelical church over by the Solway bridge, where they have Praise singing and trap drum sets. We've lost, in our own church, 150-200 people a week in the last year. And we're a church with a million-dollar budget.
I want to know what's driving this? Because that's where to focus, I think, not on the Evangelical movement, but on its magnetic pull.
Perhaps incorrectly, I find the movement patriarchal--"Do this and be saved. Don't do anything else."
Why is everyone wanting to be told what to do? Is it a population thing, partly? So many people = a sense of instability in community, requiring a strong hand? Is it a loss of belief in God? Because emotion can FEEL like faith, if it's whipped up enough.
Whatever it is, the next candidate better address that hidden need if he/she wants to win. I think.
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Date: 2004-11-16 02:21 pm (UTC)She is so much his friend that he came to her birthday party last week.
About four years of grim policies:
There's a smug feeling around here right now--I can just catch it in the air--all those Evangelicals are settling in with their man, because God answered their prayers.
Their church signs are positively euphoric of late: "Support our President while he prays!"
I worry about this: our staid Episcopal Church is losing members every week to the big Evangelical church over by the Solway bridge, where they have Praise singing and trap drum sets. We've lost, in our own church, 150-200 people a week in the last year. And we're a church with a million-dollar budget.
I want to know what's driving this? Because that's where to focus, I think, not on the Evangelical movement, but on its magnetic pull.
Perhaps incorrectly, I find the movement patriarchal--"Do this and be saved. Don't do anything else."
Why is everyone wanting to be told what to do? Is it a population thing, partly? So many people = a sense of instability in community, requiring a strong hand? Is it a loss of belief in God? Because emotion can FEEL like faith, if it's whipped up enough.
Whatever it is, the next candidate better address that hidden need if he/she wants to win. I think.