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Americans Are Having Fewer Children. Evangelicals Are No Exception.
Declining
fertility rates and environmental crisis challenge our understandings
of family, stewardship, and being a good neighbor.
Liuan Huska
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Lily
Jones Howard grew up in a church in southern California with a
burgeoning children’s and youth ministry. The church held afternoon and
evening AWANA clubs and ran separate junior high and high school youth
groups. She compares that to the church she and her husband and two
children attend now. The median age of members, she guesses, is about 65
or 70. “The pastor has said explicitly that children are the lifeblood
of the church,” Howard said. The congregation makes an effort ...
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Monday, February 3, 2020
Americans Are Having Fewer Children
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