The Religion and Family Project, sponsored by the Eli Lilly Endowment, collected data on 125 congreg

Dr. Penny Becker concluded that in most cases, congregations remain a vital resource for helping to manage work and family, for teaching children about faith and morality, and for strengthening family relationships despite a lot of social change. She also found that successful family ministries are those which are authentic to their congregation's religious traditions and beliefs while understanding the rapid changes in how work and family contexts affect an individual's commitment to the congregation.

I thought that this article was definitely true in its statements about time, work, and religion. It is true to me in my own case because I did not attend church at all my junior and senior years in high school because of work. I chose this article because I feel that it relates to the subject matter being taught in the course currently. It corresponds to a portion of chapter three in our text book.

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