“It’s a yeasty time. Christianity is being reinvented. My guess is that it will get smaller for awhile. Many churches built in the religious boom years of the last century will close. There will be tensions between experimenters and traditionalists. Denominational loyalty will continue to fade. But fresh ways of blending the old and the new will continue to emerge. And yet again an ancient protean faith will find new forms.”
Samuel T. Lloyd III
The former dean of the Washington National Cathedral was writing in the Washington Post.
“We only printed 25,000 to start with and thought it would last six to nine months, but it was launched mid-October and by the end of the year it had sold 79,000 copies — it’s just incredible.”
Stine Smemo Strachan
The Norwegian Bible Society worker was responding to reports that a new Bible translation topped Norway’s bestseller lists in 2011.
“Among liberal values, the freedom to profess any religion or none has a central place. America’s government is bound by law to promote that liberty. In line with its own ideals, America is rightly as concerned by the persecution of Muslims of any stripe as by the travails of Christians in China or Jews and Bahais in Iran. And it objects when Christian lands, like Belarus, practice persecution. Other more secular Western countries should do more to defend that right.”
Editorial in The Economist