Stray Country - Season 1 - A Carousel For Pigs - Chapter 27

Let us credit the Mormons with bringing the churches to the suburbs.  For building brand new churches in a brand new world.  America moves to the suburbs, and the Mormons followed suit.  Because Mormonism always was a frontier religion.  A religion looking west.  A religion that got out ahead of the roads.  A religion that saw a city in a dried-out primeval lake bed.

 

And the rest of Christianity followed suit.

 

But if you've noticed God doesn't quite have the sway he used to.  If you've noticed prayer just isn't a punchy as it once was.  If you feel like there is radio static when you tune your ear to Heaven.  If you've ever felt like Old Scratch mechanized sin for the industrial age - you might consider the cost of dilution.  If spreading worship and prayer, psalmody and communion across too many chapels built too quickly have spread God's grand fist too thin.