Than Doctrine E verywhere you look, people are focusing on faith and searching for meaning in life. Americans attend church far more often than the residents of other industrialized countries. Ninety-four percent of us, when asked, say we are religious.
Angels are popular on television.
Books for the soul are bestsellers. Y ou might assume that all of this would have made it easier to write the sermon I'll preach this Easter morning. Instead, the widening gulf in my parishioners' approaches to religion makes reaching them harder than ever. But those words mean little to many of their fellow pew sitters - particularly teenagers and young adults. A good part of our staggering membership losses since the 1960s can be attributed to our failure to keep our children in church and attract other young people.