Sentences with phrase «other mainline denominations»

Though other mainline denominations have opened the doors to the full participation of gay members, the UMC's General Conference spent the last 44 years consistently voting to maintain the denomination's ban on same - sex unions and on ordaining non-celibate clergy.

Between 1968 and 1971, church school enrollment of four other mainline denominations — the United Church of Christ, the Christian Church, and the two Presbyterian churches — dropped by 19.3 per cent.

Not exact matches

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

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?

Other Christians vigorously defend the older understanding, and even argue that the reason the mainline denominations have declined is because they've grown soft about it.

Furthermore, White Mainline Protestants and Black Protestants were considerably less likely than other denominations to hear about either religious liberty, abortion, or homosexuality.

Both sides, however, have been coming to a growing appreciation of each other's concerns, with mainline denominations placing more emphasis on biblical hermeneutics and theological conservatives sounding the call to contextualize theology.

The other motif, the one that I believe will come to dominate mainline denominations, might be called «meaningful vocation.»

Those whose parents and grandparents were mainline Protestants aren't carrying on the family tradition like those who align with other Protestant denominations.

As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.

Only one other mainline Protestant denomination, the Episcopal Church, has elected openly gay and lesbian bishops.

Nominal Christians make up a higher percentage of Mainline Protestants and Catholics than any other denomination of Christian, and this is why their numbers continue to sharply decline.

I am a chaplain in a mainline protestant denomination if you're wondering, and will share with you that many Christians do not believe in condemning or judging others for their beliefs however different they may be from our own.

For unlike hundreds of other Messianic Jewish congregations in North America, Avodat Yisrael (the name means in service of Israel») has been aligned with a mainline denomination; it has received some quarter of a million dollars in start - up funds from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Ecumenically, it's now the UMC that's in an awkward spot — with all other mainline Protestant denominations removing their denomination - wide prohibitions against LGBT persons.

National churches like the Church of England and other mainline Protestant denominations are losing ground in a world where nationality and culture are becoming increasingly flexible in the lives of most people.

While the majority of the (now disbanded) PP study group are members of Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, they believe that the future of the kind of ecumenism that originated from these and other mainline Protestant denominations now lies outside of them.

The groups that compose conservative Christendom are marked by distinctive theological stances and sociological dynamics as significant as those that distinguish other church traditions or those that separate evangelical groups from mainline denominations.

The Protestant world spans from one end of the spectrum, the mainline denominations, over to the other end, with independent fundamentalist denominations.

Compared with the views of current pastors in three mainline Protestant denominations (PCUSA, ELCA and United Methodist), the ex-pastors were not especially unhappy about living arrangements, salaries and benefits, spiritual life and relations with other clergy.

MAINLINE PROTESTANTS: Meanwhile, many other protestant denominations have made serious commitments to combating climate change, and the United Church of Christ leads the way.