Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.
I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!