Religion: Churches & Labor

Once the Christian churches, through their moral codes and their theological dialectic, impinged powerfully upon the behavior and thoughts of ordinary men. Today many a nominal Christian is tired of hearing about morals, and his uninformed indifference to theology is such that his pastors burden him with as little of it as possible. .In recent years churchmen have entered the more fruitful fields of economics and sociology, which to a great extent were tilled before the clergy arrived. Twice last week this new sociological trend of religion made news:

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