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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on April 15, 2014.

eNewsletter Subject: Improving the Church

I suspect we all dream of improving the Church, except that perhaps we tend to dream along the lines of our own spiritual deficiencies. Nonetheless, I am making so bold as to start a series of essays exploring how the Church might improve the quality of her membership.

This is not a simple question. There are two installments so far:

• Smaller Church, Bigger Faith? The Problem of the New Evangelization
• Smaller Church, Bigger Faith, 2: The Impact of Grace

There are also a couple of revealing news stories today. For example, you can fool some of the people some of the time. US President Barack Obama gave a talk at the annual White House Easter prayer breakfast in which he succeeds in sounding exactly like a deeply committed Christian: President Obama reflects on meeting with Pope Francis....

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