Vanishing Churches in Rural America Article Review by Top Papers
Vanishing Churches in Rural America
A review of David Van Biema's article "A Rural Exodus".
# 142917
| 750 words
| 1 source
| MLA
| 2009
| 
Published
on Dec 01, 2009
in
Religion and Theology
(Christianity)
, Environmental Studies
(General)
, Geography
(General)
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Description:
The paper reviews David Van Biema's article "A Rural Exodus," in this week's TIME Magazine (Feb 9th, 2009) that discusses the trend of vanishing pastors and churches in rural America. The article establishes how many people in America's heartland grew up going to the same church with the same pastor and having all the rites of their lives through the same congregation.
From the Paper:
"David Van Biema's article "A Rural Exodus,' in this week's TIME Magazine (Feb 9th, 2009) discusses the trend of vanishing pastors and churches in rural America. The article establishes how many people in America's heartland grew up going to the same church with the same pastor and having all the rites of their lives through the same congregation. Nowadays, with the rural population slimming and older congregants dying out (with less new ones to replace them), churches are being burned or foreclosed. This has been happening since the 1980s, and leaves congregations once tight knit and high in membership at their weakest. Much of these problems are..."Cite this Article Review:
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"Vanishing Churches in Rural America" 01 December 2009.
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