- So the Swedes trust IKEA more than church? (Who doesn’t? Right meatball lovers?)
- Certain francophone Canadian friends clued me in — right before the Quebec City General Assembly — that all the ripe swear words there are church-related. GetReligion takes on the story (through I doubt their take the origins of American sex-related swearing.)
- Church Marketing Sucks points out two very clever Christ-follower versus Christian plays on the Mac (versus Windows) ads. Cute, and they make a good point, but the “less Pharisaical than thou” trajectory is hard to maintain. And what about Linux, I wonder?
It is a general situation in Europe. In Spain the trust rate of the Church is the lowest of all institutions, even below the Army…