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William J. Bouwsma , a professor emeritus of history at Berkeley , adds another twist to the recalibration of the Western story . By promoting a revival of non-eucharistic and paraliturgical forms of piety and instruction , the Church could , I believe , help to safeguard the distinctive values of liturgical worship . National politics is , to an increasing extent , subject to the needs and demands of corporations without national identity or loyalty . All this long precedes the birth of Calvinism . At the same time , unlike the editors of Commonweal , the NCC and some of its member churches have not been content with superciliously raising complexities and caveats . Taking note of the campaign , the editors of Commonweal tell us that the question of religious persecution is " complex . The first sign of the times is that the influence and significance of nation-states is declining while that of corporations is advancing .