Barnabas File

For Christian parents, taking your children to church requires a special commitment.   Although there are more options for church attendance than just Sunday morning and dress expectations have been minimized, the very act of taking (not sending) your children to worship and (hopefully) Bible study is a witness to your own faith and a desire to instill that faith in them.   You are witnessing to the fact that there is something more to life. I thought about this when I recently heard a rebroadcast of an On Point presentation   on NPR hosted by Tom Ashbrook.   He was interviewing Phil Zuckerman, professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College on his book Living the Secular Life:   New Answers to Old Questions.    Based on research of sociological trends, Zuckerman explained that people still want community but they want it without supernatural and mythological trappings.   His personal analysis is that religion does more harm ...