Sentences with phrase «large mainline denominations»

In many ways the pattern of UU membership resembles that of the large mainline denominations.

Interesting how this issue has come up for us as a large mainline denomination has asked our involvement.

Not exact matches

The largest body, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), generally looks and acts like any other mainline Protestant denomination.

They tend, by and large, to be more conservative than the mainline denominations of the United States.

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

It was a surprise for me that, when I left a liberal - progressive mainline denomination and became Orthodox, my scope of ministry in the church became much larger.

The larger, established, mainline denominations generally held the view that broadcasters should provide time on the air for a balanced presentation of religious views, roughly representing the proportion of various religious groups in the community, even if this required stations to supply the time without charge, and that this was consistent with the understandings reached between Congress and the broadcasters when the allocation of nonprofit stations was defeated.

The SBC is the second - largest denomination in the United States, only to Catholicism, so the decision is bound to cause ripples throughout mainline Evangelicalism.

Three failings of mainline denominations are targeted: overemphasis on large - membership churches, inflexible liturgy, and an unfair method of paying clergy.

Currently the market is served by an assortment of publishers: presses sponsored by the mainline denominations, large and small commercial publishers and some university presses.