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Boomers, The Big Sort, and Really, Really Big Churches

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill

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The Suburbs - A New Way of Life

Suburbs started to fill during the post war economic boom of the fifties. As these mega churches began grow, they really became kind of one stop shops for the whole family. The journalist bill bishop called this the big sort a demographic shift in which cities, schools, political parties and churches became more homogeneous. Overtime, framed negatively, you can see it as the impetus for the kinds of division and polarization that our politics to day.

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