Our faith community can be a bigger asset
That's the premise of an editorial I'm working on for Sunday, in light of Martlin Luther King Jr. Day and King's views on the role of the church in the community.
According to a 2007 social capital study, Greensboro residents are more involved than most in their churches, mosques and synagogues.
They give more to religious and nonreligious chariites than the national average, despite lower-than-average median wages.
They attend religious services more frequently than residents in their peer cities.
Ironically, however, they trust each other as much as residents in peer cities. What's up with that?
We wonder if our religious institutions are an asset that should be better leveraged for the good of the community.
One example is the meeting this week among primarily faith leaders to consider how churches can help address the problem of youth crime.
Can our religious institutions do more as agents of social change? Should they? Are they working together as much as they could or should?
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