Disciples of the social gospel still write challenging articles in liberal magazines;
national church staffs sponsor conferences on the liberation of the oppressed; seminaries buzz with talk of social justice.
Disciples of the social gospel still write challenging articles in liberal magazines;
national church staffs sponsor conferences on the liberation...
Not exact matches
These changes in the numerical balance, together with the increasing replacement of American missionaries by
nationals in leadership positions at the lower levels of
church structure, have inevitably raised the issue of when and to what extent the distribution of leadership and other
staff at headquarters will reflect these developments.
The
National Council of
Churches now has a staff person whose responsibilities include the churches and mental health
Churches now has a
staff person whose responsibilities include the
churches and mental health
churches and mental health thrust.
Church of Christ, the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) and the Baptists do without
national staff in worship, though not in other areas of ministry.
They regularly attack
national church activities and continue to build their coffers and secure recruits and
staff.
A second observation is that it is precisely at the
national headquarters levels of the typical western
church that the Inertia of
church organization and
staff exerts Its most debilitating Influence on the capacity of the
church to effect change in its own program or in the policies of the economic and political institutions In which It Is enmeshed.
It is unrealistic to imagine that
churches, at the judicatory or
national level, can accomplish any significant social action without
staff.
A small number of
national churches and synagogues maintain special aging offices, with staffs and budgets, and some of these Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic bodies are members of the National Interfaith Coalition o
national churches and synagogues maintain special aging offices, with
staffs and budgets, and some of these Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic bodies are members of the
National Interfaith Coalition o
National Interfaith Coalition on Aging.
The figures published provide a breakdown of pay by gender for
staff of the
National Church Institutions (NCIs) and do not cover clergy ministering across the 42 dioceses of the
Church of England.
A few years ago a longtime
staff member of the
National Council of
Churches and an active
church member responded to our findings by admitting that if Gallup called her to inquire about her attendance in the last seven days, she would say she attended even if she had not done so, and she would not consider her response to be a lie.
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