Whereas 41 percent of weekly worship attenders and 61 percent of seldom or never attenders supported him just before the election, now the numbers are 57 percent and 69 percent. Thus the gap between the two groups has narrowed from 20 points to 12 points. What explains the differential?
Most who left both the Catholic Church and Protestant denominations and remain unaffiliated did so because they no longer agreed with the conservative teachings from the church on issues like abortion, homosexuality, the Bible and social justice issues like poverty, war and the death penalty.
America, a Jesuit magazine, argues that the Catholic Church must consider allowing priests to marry: “Silence and fervent prayer for vocations are no longer adequate responses to the priest shortage in the United States.”
… an expert on Episcopal Church polity labeled as “bizarre” the idea that individual bishops or dioceses could take that step (signing the Covenant diocese by diocese), and questioned what meaning it would have in the wider Episcopal Church or Anglican Communion.
This week marks the public launch of the Two Futures Project, a new movement of Christians, led by younger Evangelicals, for the global abolition of
Updated at 4:25 p. m. with advisory from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops: the need for the introduction of widespread liturgical adaptations for the
Ruth Gledhill, writing in The Times, UK features initiatives that make progress in healing tensions across faith divides. The initiatives showcased at this month’s Alliance
Counting your blessings can be an opportunity to develop a greater sense of compassion. Knowing the abundance in your own life can encourage liberality toward others, born out of the fundamental reason for all acts of stewardship – gratitude for the abundance we have been given. ~~Katharine Jefferts Schori
[Atheists’] arguments are fatally undermined by their own unacknowledged dogmas and doctrines, … and they completely fail to understand Christian faith (or any other kind) except in its stupidest and most literal-minded form.
The fight over gay marriage may be far from over, but already some conservative Christian leaders are looking beyond the courtroom dramas and the legislative infighting. The trouble they see is not just an America where general support for gay marriage will have driven a wedge between churches and the world, but between churches themselves.