2009-12-082009-12-081999-02http://www.polis.iupui.edu/polis/RUC/Newsletters/Clergy/default.htmhttps://hdl.handle.net/2450/3594Scholars use the term declension to describe the deterioration or declining influence of an organization or institution. The theme of declension…encourages the tendency to pay more attention to what religion is not doing and what it used to do rather than to what it is doing and continues to do.Newsletter