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Eight years ago, a handful of Roman Catholic families in Huntersville, a suburb of Charlotte, N.C., started a new parish. The home of their church, St. Mark, was a bowling alley. Our Lady of the Lanes, as they jokingly called it, was an apt symbol of the scarcity--and supple...
For the past 50 years, evangelical Protestant denominations, like the Southern Baptists, have been growing, while “mainline” Protestant churches, like the Episcopalians and the Methodists, have been slowly losing members. This should be a shock to those of us who think organized religion can be...
Watching Pastor Brashear talk to his flock, I began to understand why he would have so much success while mainline Protestant congregations were failing. Brashear keeps track of a lot of his parishioners. You got the sense he knew who hadn’t been to church in a while...
For a holiday with such a commercial element, there are intriguing signs that the deeper meaning of Christmas is spreading in China. Yiwu, in coastal Zhejiang province, is home to half a million migrant workers from the country's poorest reaches. Many of them have become curious about Christmas, says...
What accounts for such extreme behavior? Traditional rivalries, for one thing, have long mirrored societal rifts. Glasgow Celtic fans are Catholic, and Rangers fans are Protestant. In Rome it was communist vs. fascist; in Madrid nationalist vs. Catalan or Basque. Yet as those old markers fade, the violence seems to...