The world has been awash with such pessimism. (fortune.com)
Reasons for such pessimism are underscored in the analytical portion of Pritchard's book: «Evaluating the Willow Creek Way of Doing Church.» (religion-online.org)
Certainly for Christian faith such a pessimism would be disloyal to the conviction that behind, through, and in all our existence there is a relationship with a Love which is enduring, undefeated and indefeasible, faithful in its caring and able to preserve in its own unsurpassable life all that has been worthily achieved in the created order — including all that has been worthily achieved by us humans. (religion-online.org)