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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider
themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise.Interestingly
enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing,
there is little to no trend in the number of those who
express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People arent saying they dont believe
in God. Theyre saying they dont believe in religion. They are not
rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church.This begs the question,
Why are we losing our religion?Some may be losing their religion, but
I challenge the notion that faith in general is waning.I believe, instead,
the trend of people who dont identify as part of an organized
religion speaks to an increasing wariness of labels in our culture. Those
labels carry baggage for many who might have been hurt by the
Church or let down by religion.You see, religion alone can only take
a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ
can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an
inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship
centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about
Jesus.In order to become a new person, we need Christ. Only through
an active ongoing relationship with Jesus can we become transformed and
overcome the labels that bind us.In fact, Ive struggled with what people
think of my label: pastor. For many, this label carries emoti
SEOUL, South Korea A top South Korean national security official said
Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile
test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will
be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that
the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington
and Seoul.North Korea's warning last week followed weeks of war threats
and other efforts to punish South Korea and the U.S. for ongoing
joint military drills, and for their support of U.N. sanctions over Pyongyang's
Feb. 12 nuclear test. Many nations are deciding what to do about
the notice, which said their diplomats' safety in Pyongyang cannot be guaranteed
beginning this Wednesday.Tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang led South
Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff to announce Sunday that its chairman had
put off a visit to Washington. The U.S. military said its top
commander in South Korea had also canceled a trip to Washington. The
South Korean defense minister said Thursday that North Korea had moved a
missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, possibly to conduct
a test launch.His description suggests that the missile could be the Musudan
missile, capable of striking American bases in Guam with its estimated range
of up to 4,000 kilometers (2,490 miles).Citing North Korea's suggestion
that diplomats leave the country, South Korean President Park Geun-hye's
national security director said
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">WASHINGTON After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler
just gave up.She'd already abandoned hope of getting work in her field,
working with the disabled. But she couldn't land anything else, either
not even a job interview at a telephone call center.Until she feels
confident enough to send out resumes again, she'll get by on food
stamps and disability checks from Social Security and live with her parents
in St. Louis."I'm not proud of it," says Baebler, who is in
her mid-30s and is blind. "The only way I'm able to sustain
any semblance of self-preservation is to rely on government programs that
I have no desire to be on."Baebler's frustrating experience has become all
too common nearly four years after the Great Recession ended: Many Americans
are still so discouraged that they've given up on the job market.Older
Americans have retired early. Younger ones have enrolled in school. Others
have suspended their job hunt until the employment landscape brightens.
Some, like Baebler, are collecting disability checks.It isn't supposed to
be this way. After a recession, an improving economy is supposed to
bring people back into the job market.Instead, the number of Americans in
the labor force those who have a job or are looking
for one fell by nearly half a million people from February
to March, the government said Friday. And the percentage of working-age
adults in the labor force what's called the participation rate
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d suffer in the spotlight. Maybe
the new pope will keep his distance from the society, for fear
of giving an appearance of favoritism. Or, he could use his new
authority to become from their perspective
too involved in the society, like John Paul. And they wonder if
Jesuits would somehow be blamed for any of Francis' decisions that prove
unpopular.Jesuits were already at a crossroads when Francis was elected.
Although the order remains the largest in the church for men, membership
has dropped by more than half since peaking in 1965, Gaunt said.The
decline came mostly in the West. But In South Asia and India,
Christianity, and Catholicism specifically, have been growing, and so too
have the numbers of Jesuits in those areas. Gaunt calls it "the
changing Jesuit geography." India now has the largest national group of
Jesuits with just over 3,900 members, followed by the U.S., with just
under 2,500. About one-third of the world's 17,287 Jesuits came from developing
countries, a figure that is expected to rise in coming years.For U.S.
Jesuits, this has meant a long season of wondering where they go
from here. The order is restructuring in the U.S., merging their 10
smaller provinces into four larger ones.Lay people now staff most Jesuit
schools and ministries, so the order has started Jesuit spirituality retreats
and instruction for lay faculty and staff to help maintain the religious
identity of what they've built. Among the newer J
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