Book sales on the soul are rising off the charts. Men meet in football stadiums to repent. TV shows touch on angels.
Newspapers start religion beats.
Polls say 90 percent of Americans believe in God, and 45 percent go to church every Sunday. Mainline churches have lost one-fourth of their members in the past 30 years. Some 48 percent of Episcopalian children leave the church at age 18. Religious sociologist Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University estimates only 5 percent of the US population is actively engaged in prayer or devotional practice on a daily basis. What you see these days is a total lack of any authority in intellectual life.