Martin Luther King declared that the most segregated hour of the week was 11 am Sunday morning. That's changing quickly - and Evangelical churches are leading the way, as believers of all races mix and befriend one another at higher rates than other churches. ...

This new book is definitely on my reading list. This is what you get when society and religion feminize: feelings trump facts and relationships trump rules. From the article:



"Americans, it would appear, have become not less religious but differently religious. But the form these new faiths are taking represents a deep and troubling departure from historical Christianity.



Diving into the numbers and stories of the spiritually unaffiliated, Burton coins a new term: the “Remixed religious,” or the Remixed for short. The Remixed may check “none” (or “spiritual but not religious”) when the census asks about religion, but that’s only because no other label really fits (and they abhor labels to begin with). In reality, the Remixed approach spirituality in the same way they manage their social media presence: They curate. This used to be called “cafeteria religion,” but it’s hardly a cafeteria anymore when the buffet line goes on for miles. ...