The Decline and Fall of Christian America (Jon Meacham)
Newsweek had their “Easter issue” out on Monday with a cover story by editor John Meacham titled, “The End of Christian America.” Regulars of this blog will enjoy reading the piece. It was special fun for me as the focus of much of the article was Meacham’s interview with my own boss, who then followed up the Newsweek piece with a blog post of his own, then radio. It has been a great week for conversation about such things.
Here is an excerpt from the opening:
It was a small detail, a point of comparison buried in the fifth paragraph on the 17th page of a 24-page summary of the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey. But as R. Albert Mohler Jr.—president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the largest on earth—read over the document after its release in March, he was struck by a single sentence. For a believer like Mohler—a starched, unflinchingly…
