As summer begins, another wedding season is upon us. The air is warm, the earth is lush and everything is as pretty as a June bride.
But for all our marriage cliches, one now belongs on the endangered species list: Wedding bells are not ringing.
We live atop shifting sands, at least as far as faith is concerned. Part of the change is that fewer Americans are Christians. Churches nowadays do not usually have bells, especially churches that meet in storefronts, rented school cafeterias or aluminum-sided monstrosities in far-flung suburbs. And the percentage of weddings that take place in churches has plummeted, dropping by almost half in less than a decade.
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