That is a break with Anglicanism's familiar role as the undemanding "default mode" of faith for a secular country.The Church of England's own number-crunchers confirm the picture of falling attendance at Sunday services in mainstream churches.
It's a roster of default positions: trust in technology, belief in personal reinvention, a taste for media demagoguery, faith in market branding and state lotteries, proud hatred of government spending yet a love of government entitlements.
"Their unwillingness to compromise is pushing us to the brink of a default on the full faith and credit of the United States," Mr. Reid said of Mr. Boehner and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader who also attended the session.
In the Senate, Mr. Reid called the deal a "historic bipartisan compromise" and said it is "remarkable" for what it does and for what it prevents: a "first-ever default on the full faith and credit of the United States".
In 1999, he took over PIMCO's emerging-markets bond fund, and has piloted it to the second-best record in its peer group since then, largely thanks to his exit from Argentine debt before that country's default and to his faith in Brazil's solvency when many doubted it in 2002.
Especially troubling is the grotesque implications buried within the constant demands for condemnations from Muslims – that unless we publicly come out after each and every event perpetrated by a Muslim unknown to us and already condemned by our faith, the default assumption about us is that we must endorse it.
I wonder, would all citizens be considered members of that faith by default?
These powerbrokers, or ruling realists, always default to their true faith -- the sacred calling of "interests" -- while ignoring the wellbeing and future of humanity.
"If the president is presented with legislation that would result in the Congress choosing to default on the full faith and credit of the United States, he would veto it".
Still, the spokesman, Michael Steel, said that "we continue to believe that defaulting on the full faith and credit of the United States is not an option".
