Why Stay?
Why stay?
“The issue, “ wrote Robert Bellah in THE GOOD SOCIETY, “both for the local parish and for the national or international Church, is whether membership is accepted as having a formative claim on one’s very sense of self, as involving a loyalty that can persist through difficulties, or whether membership is merely instrumental to individual self-fulfillment and, like some current conceptions of marriage, can be abandoned as soon as it ‘doesn’t meet my needs.’”