Bad Times Draw Bigger Crowds to Churches
The sudden crush of worshipers packing the small evangelical Shelter Rock Church in Manhasset, New York - a Long Island town of yacht clubs and hedge fund managers - forced the pastor to set up an overflow room with closed-circuit TV and 100 folding chairs, which have been filled for six consecutive Sundays.
In Seattle, the Mars Hill Church, one of the fastest-growing evangelical churches in the country, grew to 7,000 members this fall, up 1,000 ...
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Undercurrent in this story is a feeling of panic–overlooked by Republican Senators in their fervor to destroy auto worker unions for their big business buddies. Although we're still mostly fearful, it’s only an eye-blink to panic. Panic worsened the Great Depression causing runs on Wall Street, runs on banks, halting consumption, halting manufacturing causing more job losses. FDR’s real success was to assuage panic, starting with: “The only thing we have to fear is fear, itself.”