Heart of dying church’s choice: serve God with $s on global need scale or serve money
Numbers in empty tomb’s latest book point to downward trends in church giving and membership. To change the trends, the church needs to serve God with money by offering a vision on a scale with global need that will capture the imaginations and attract the giving of members and those still identifying with the church. It will, however, take initial leadership from individual venture philanthropists to mobilize such a counterstrategy to engage the entrenched patterns.
The negative trends found in the data analyzed by empty tomb are echoed in various surveys. For example, a recent survey by Dr. George Barna finds many Americans combining “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” with traditional Christianity, and 43% of Millennials “Don’t know, care, or believe that God exists.” Noting this emergence of “radically redefined” institutions, including churches, Barna states: “From a nationwi
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AAP PROSE Awards: The 2021 Category Winners
From biological science and ‘The Ethical Algorithm’ to legal studies and ‘Demagogue for President,’ the AAP PROSE category winners embrace 45 fields of study.
The apse mosaic of Sant’ Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna’s patron saint. Judith Herrin’s ‘Ravenna: Capital of Empire Crucible of Europe’ from Princeton University Press has won the 2021 European History category PROSE Award. Image – iStockphoto: Sergio Delle Vedove
Swann: ‘Exceptional Scholarship’
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Today (January 28), we have the winners in those 45 subject categories in this, the 45th year of the PROSE Awards’ operation. And that puts us halfway through the selection-announcement cycle of this long-running award program.