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with contributions from Amy Babcock, James Worsham, Craig Stapert, Michael Endelman

"People are living more in their emotions and in their interior life as they have withdrawn a bit from the public religious identity," said sociologist Wade Clark Roof at a symposium entitled "The Church in the Third Millennium."

The purpose of the symposium, held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., was to understand where the Christian Church has been and where it is going.

"The religious mood today is one of quest, of searching, rather than of affirmation of strong, dogmatic assertions," Roof went on. "Just look at the names we put currently on vehicles in [the United States]: Voyager, Explorer, Pathfinder, even Quest."

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