Monolithic “hierarchy,” with all its labor-saving devices, can still amount to places and processes where no one really wants to learn how the sausage gets made, or how long it can take for placements to occur.
A Public Religion Research Institute study says Catholics are more supportive of legal recognitions of same-sex relationships than members of any other Christian tradition and Americans overall, despite the fact that the message that they hear from the pulpit is likely to be more negative.
Being single throughout adulthood is more and more common and less stigmatized but many people–as well as workplaces and the church–don’t get that it is possible to be single and never want to get married or have children.
Evangelical voters may be willing to support a presidential candidate with a checkered past, and this presidential election, they may have to choose between a candidate who can win and a candidate who mirrors their religious ideals
I believe in the story of Creation with all my heart.