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COURAGEOUS CHRISTIANITY
A news article from the Kansas City Times was entitled: “Paganism Now Permeates Society, Professor Warns.” The article cites the shift in conditions in United States society from 1950 to 1970. It then quotes Rev. William H. Willimon, a Duke University professor as saying: “…it is no longer natural, normal and American to grow up Christian. …Paganism is in the air we breathe and the water we drink…” Willimon, a United Methodist, said in a lecture at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, “If our children grow up in faith, we are going to have to put them there.” He said the “world has declared war on the church in the most subtle ways.” Therefore, he said, Christians must form strong worshipping communities because “being a Christian is too difficult a way to walk alone.”