The news article used for the 10/26 news in food assignment is called "Slow Church Movement Fights the 'McDonaldization' of Sunday Service" written by Bob Smietana.
Christopher Smith and John Pattison, the authors of the book "Slow Church," are arguing for the end of mass producing spiritual growth a la similar fast food tactics, also known as McDonaldization. They argue that rather than employing methods for getting the greatest number of people through a Sunday mass, churches should be striving for a higher quality spiritual engagement that caters to individuals rather than being cookie-cutter fit to everyone. "Megachurches" are also taking people away from their community, allowing them to remain anonymous instead. Advocates of the fast church movement think that industrialized faith could get new generations interested in going to church and keep them returning due to being more convenient. Laura Shapino in her book "Something from the Oven" talks about how baking cakes became different once cake mixes were available at stores. The cake mixes cut the time needed to make the cake, thus making it more convenient for those baking, but it lost its sense of "love" and taste that cakes made from scratch had maintained. The comparison could be made here; going to church is about a quality spiritual experience that connects the people involved to God and community. Finding ways to shovel more people through the institution would lose its love and attention to detail that the "slow churches" have, but would greatly increase the number of people the church could reach out to. As George Ritzer illustrated in "The McDonaldization of Society," efficiency is always something that's striven for in pretty much every corner of the modern world, from health care to homemade food and even to sports. Making every day life more efficient is an innovative way that humans are evolving, so fitting this to churches shouldn't be out of the ordinary. Whether churches should actually try an industrialized faith or keep a more conservative approach, however, is still open for plenty of debate.
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