The financial dilemma that wound up helping US churches thrive

Andover Theological Seminary was founded in the early 1800s to train Congregational ministers. J. Kidder/Yale University Art Gallery/Wikimedia Commons By many measures, Americans are growing less religious: Since 2007, for example, the percentage of people who pray daily has dropped, while the “unaffiliated” have grown to 29%. But those numbers can distract from just how much faith still matters in American public life – much more so than in Western Europe, despite its similar religious…