As I’ve said many times in the past, social and family pathologies are invariably most acute when the churches are strongest. Now, the index is poverty.
The Great Recession and Not-So-Great Recovery have been bad news for most Americans, but some people have suffered more than others. We call those people “Southerners.”
North Carolina and a handful of other Southern U.S. states saw the biggest increases in the number of people living in what are known as “poverty areas” between 2000 and 2010, according to a new Census Bureau report
This is not an odd coincidence; it is what you get when the degradations of Christian teaching, and its anti-intellectualism, are taken seriously. The south won’t be healthy until it leaves church and stays away.