Sentences with phrase «mainline denominations today»
On the social - action agenda of mainline denominations today are sexual - justice issues regarding gender and sexual orientation.
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Many mainline denominations today subscribe to this teaching - be aware that your church may be one of them.
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In what is becoming something of a pig pile on the GOP from the Christian Left, more than two dozen bishops from mainline Protestant denominations sent a letter to Congress today denouncing proposed Republican budget cuts as «morally indefensible.»
And by «we», I mean us, those of us gathered here today, and also people who are part of mainline denominations, and part of the demographic groups from whom the mainline has typically drawn its membership.
Today, most charismatics are not in mainline denominations, though that is where it started and where such practices were mainstreamed.
Clearly, we must not take for granted that the Western notion of «civil society,» as it developed largely in Britain and America from the seventeenth century onward with the close collaboration of the forebears of today's «mainline «protestant denominations, has answers for a contemporary global society.
As I contemplate the church today, I would judge it to be an institution in very serious trouble; every mainline denomination is faced with the same agonies of declining membership.