That is precisely what The Well did when it left its building in 2005 to become a community of house churches. The Well now commits 50 percent of its tithes and offerings to benevolence and service projects decided on by the individual house church. And, much of the remaining 50 percent that goes to The Well collectively is also sent back into the community as directed by the church board.

The May 2009 survey documents comparable changes in public views about the legality of abortion. In answer to a question providing three options for the extent to which abortion should be legal, about as many Americans now say the procedure should be illegal in all circumstances (23%) as say it should be legal under any circumstances (22%). This contrasts with the last four years, when Gallup found a strong tilt of public attitudes in favor of unrestricted abortion.

A British study put the risk much higher: A child living with an unmarried mother is 14 times as apt to be physically abused by the mother.

In 2007 40 percent of children were born out-of-wedlock. That's 1.7 million kids, up sharply from 1.2 million in 1995. In that year, more than 60 percent of households were headed by married parents, but only 49.7% were married in 2005.

Divorce destroys one marriage out of two - the world's highest divorce rate.

Iraqi Christians already endured hell. The figures vary, but the best estimates put the Christian population at 1.2 million in 1991, 800,000 in 2003 and less than 400,000 today. At this rate the Assyrians will be extinct before the black rhino; in fact it's a shame they don't have horns or fur or flippers, as their plight would undoubtedly have received more attention in the British media.