catering for singles

[SF & P Webb]

Unmarried Americans are also changing the face of organized religion. 
Because younger singles often do not attend regularly, some churches and 
temples are creating special services to attract them. At Temple 
Kehillath Israel in Brookline, Mass., a monthly Shabbat service and 
dinner on Friday evening targets the generation between 22 and 32. And 
St. Paul's Cathedral (Episcopal) in Boston holds a Sunday evening 
gathering for those in their 20s and 30s.

"The institutional church is starting to awaken to the fact that 
churches tend to be almost reflexively family- oriented," says the Very 
Rev. John P. Streit, dean of the cathedral. "That can be unintentionally 
exclusive to people who aren't married and don't have kids. The church 
is starting to pay more attention and be more careful about its 
language, the way it structures its programs, and who it imagines is 
sitting in the pews."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1015/p11s02-lihc.html

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