ITEMS OF INTEREST May 1, 2006 ISSUE

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Ben Gelinas, R. Scott Macintosh, Chris Herlinger

"ORGANIZED RELIGION is making a comeback after years in decline. This is according to Reginald Bibby, a sociologist at the University of Lethbridge [Alberta] who spent 25 years chronicling the demise of traditional congregations.

"'There's new life in churches,' Bibby told a crowd of 80 United Church members, Anglicans, Baptists, Unitarians, Presbyterians, Catholics, and agnostics [April 1] at McDougall United Church [in Edmonton]. Churches are doing a better job of fulfilling people's spiritual needs these days, he said....

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