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  • A theory of liberal churches

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    Marginal Revolution: A theory of liberal churches From Michael Makowsky: There is a counterintuitive gap in the club theory of religion. While it elegantly accounts for the success of strict sectarian religious groups in recruiting members and maintaining commitment, it is less satisfactory when attempting to account for groups requiring neither extreme nor zero sacrifice.…

  • One religious institution that isn’t so post-racial

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    CNN Belief Blog: One religious institution that isn't so post-racial Even as the communities that churches serve become more diverse, there’s some religious quarters where people of color remain dramatically underrepresented: the nation’s seminaries. About one-third of all accredited theological schools lack a single minority faculty member, according to leaders with the Fund for Theological…

  • Big Sort: Unsorting?

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    (Link to Part 10) Over the last half-century, we've witnessed a sorting phenomenon in American life. As noted in an earlier post, gathering like-minded people tends to intensify and make individuals' views more extreme. Sorting intensifies group norms and values, which draws in more like-minded people who give stronger reinforcement to norms and values. If…

  • Churches in USA more diverse, informal than a decade ago

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    USA Today: Churches in USA more diverse, informal than a decade ago Worship services may still be the USA's most segregated hour, but fewer congregations are now completely white, finds a study comparing churches, synagogues and mosques last year with a decade ago. The National Congregations Study says 14% of primarily white congregations reported no…

  • Diversity is Bad in the Neighborhood, Good at Work

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    Gruntled Center (Beau Weston): Diversity is Bad in the Neighborhood, Good at Work Robert Putnam, famous for Bowling Alone, has now published a study that shows that neighborhood diversity undermines social capital — positive civic networks — in a dozen ways. In a recent Scandinavian Political Studies journal, Putnam, very reluctantly, reports that people living…

  • The Death of Diversity

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    Wall Street Journal: The Death of Diversity (HT: Juan Sarmiento) Now comes word that diversity as an ideology may be dead, or not worth saving. Robert Putnam, the Harvard don who in the controversial bestseller "Bowling Alone" announced the decline of communal-mindedness amid the rise of home-alone couch potatoes, has completed a mammoth study of…

  • Sanctification Through Community (Emergent, Part 6)

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    Years ago, I heard a speaker tell of an epiphany about her husband. She said one of the things she found attractive about her husband when they were dating was how attentive he was too little details. Not that this should have been surprising. He was a very successful accountant. One night, years after they…