social justice warriors – Yet those empty seats at churches and synagogues also

yet those empty seats at churches and synagogues also reflect a deeper malaise in a society increasingly alienated and polarized organized faiths were unique in their ability to bring together disparate people, and at their best serve as powerful instruments of social improvement anyone who has worked in post-katrina new orleans or houston after harvey knows organized evangelicals  played an outsized role in recovery and relief as wallace stenger once noted, if you must suffer a disaster, it is best to have the mormon church around nor is it easy to see how our health system could work without the networks of catholic, jewish and methodist hospitals yet those empty seats at churches and synagogues also reflect a deeper malaise in a society increasingly alienated and polarized