Category Archives: Obedience

The Missing Purpose of Church

The lament we hear from many sectors in American Christendom is over the increasing number of people who shun church. While the numbers seem to bolster this observation, no one can agree as to why the exodus is happening. Some say those who have gone missing have left the Faith entirely. Others point to a [...]

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The Church, Tech, Ethics, Jaron Lanier, and the Destruction of the Middle Class

After reading my recent post “‘Free’ and the Destruction of Worth,” reader Brian Auten sent notice of a compelling Salon interview with tech futurist Jaron Lanier—“The Internet Destroyed the Middle Class”—in which the polymath suggests he and other prognosticators underestimated the negative impact the Internet would have on our lives. As a musician, Lanier thought [...]

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The One Reason Kids Leave Church (A Response to Jim Daly’s “Ten Reasons Kids Leave the Church”)

Over at Focus on the Family, someone is thinking. That usually spells trouble. Ha! I jest. Jim Daly wrote a piece about why young people abandon the Faith (“Ten Reasons Kids Leave the Church“). It’s not a bad postmortem. Many of those reasons are decent secondary excuses. They play well. What doesn’t play well is [...]

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