With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Shrew with a point.

Recently, David Leonhard from The New York Times described an off-overlook factor in upward

social mobility.

Among other factors like good health care schools and parents who stay married, kids from

lower-income houses do better if they have friends, family, and community members from

diverse economic backgrounds.

How do those relationships form?

Where after suggesting subsidized housing, diverse K-12 schools, and access to public parks,

Leonhard arrives, wait for it, at the church.

Quote, although many churches are socioeconomically homogenous, those with some diversity tend

to foster more cross-class interactions than most other social activities.

Churches have lower levels of what researchers call socioeconomic, branding, bias.

In other words, churchgoers tend to be more willing to associate with people outside

of their immediate economic bracket.

Because of that, in other reasons, the church is one of the best drivers of human flourishing

that God ever created.

It's Chuck Colson said, but the world needs now is for the church to be the church.

The Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.