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Oct 2, 2018 · Many of the least churched regions are in rural America—where about 14 percent of the U.S. population lives, according to Pew Research. By Bob Smietana. Most Christians in the United States probably wouldn’t think to send church planters to Loving County, Texas.
Jan 24, 2024 · About 40 million Americans have left churches and other religious institutions in the last 25 years. For some, the decision is rooted in deep pain. But for the majority, their reasons for leaving ...
3 days ago · Moravian Church, Northern and Southern Province congregations can be found in 17 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. To find a congregation near you, simply enter your Postal/ZIP code and select how far you want your search to go (if you don’t find a congregation on the first try, increase the search radius). You can also search by state.
This is an increase of 38 million individuals—that’s more people than live in Canada or Australia. 3. The vast majority of America’s churchless have attended a church. Very few of America’s unchurched adults are purely unchurched—most of them, rather, are de-churched. Only about one-quarter of unchurched adults (23%) has never ...
- Organized in 1457
- Growth, Persecution and Exile
- Renewed in The 1700s
- Moravians in America
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The reformation spirit did not die with Hus. The Moravian Church, or Unitas Fratrum (Unity of Brethren), as it has been officially known since 1457, arose as followers of Hus gathered in the village of Kunvald, about 100 miles east of Prague, in eastern Bohemia, and organized the church. This was 60 years before Martin Luther began his reformation ...
By 1517 the Unity of Brethren numbered at least 200,000 with over 400 parishes. Using a hymnal and catechism of its own, the church promoted the Scriptures through its two printing presses and provided the people of Bohemia and Moravia with the Bible in their own language. A bitter persecution, which broke out in 1547, led to the spread of the Bret...
The eighteenth century saw the renewal of the Moravian Church through the patronage of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, a pietist nobleman in Saxony. Some Moravian families fleeing persecution in Bohemia and Moravia found refuge on Zinzendorf’s estate in 1722 and built the community of Herrnhut. The new community became the haven for many more...
The Moravians first came to America during the colonial period. In 1735 they were part of General Oglethorpe’s philanthropic venture in Georgia. Their attempt to establish a community in Savannah did not succeed, but they did have a profound impact on the young John Wesley who had gone to Georgia during a personal spiritual crisis. Wesley was impre...
Always ecumenically minded, the Moravians were among the first members of the National and World Council of Churches. The church established a number of schools in America, the most important of which are Salem Academy and College, Moravian College and Theological Seminary, and preparatory schools in Lititz and Bethlehem. In 1957 the worldwide Mora...
Mergers have occurred, but so have divisions. Currently the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is by far the largest Lutheran body in the United States, followed by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and many smaller bodies. But the story doesn’t end with the first immigrations from northern Europe.
Dec 31, 2015 · As Gretchen Buggeln writes in her new book The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America, Park Forest’s developers made sure to set aside areas for churches in their new town ...
