In a nation where, increasingly, belief in God cannot be assumed, and where Christianity is losing more and more of its sway in public discourse, what does membership in a church offer? Or, to put it another way, how might we say that church matters?
I’m curious how faith leaders might answer these questions because I recently ran across a very difficult sort of answer. In 1928, United Lutheran Pastor Herbert A. Bosch published a book, Not Slothful in Business. According to James Hudnut-Beumler, Bosch was part of a movement of that era in which church leaders sought to embrace business practices (sound familiar?). Bosch, particularly, was interested in advertising and marketing.
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