mainline churches
Survey: Mainline clergy are more liberal than their congregants
By Yonat Shimron — September 14, 2023
(RNS) — Mainline clergy are more supportive than their congregants of LGBTQ rights, more likely to have opposed the overturn of Roe v. Wade and less likely to believe America is in danger of losing its culture and identity.
Are white evangelical pastors at odds with their congregants? A new study says no.
By Yonat Shimron — August 9, 2023
(RNS) — A new study shows white evangelical clergy are as conservative, if not more so, as the people in their churches.
COMMENTARY: How Brown v. Board of Education still shapes our religious life
By Tom Ehrich — May 20, 2014
(RNS) How can a 60-year-old Supreme Court decision still be shaping religious life in America? It's because race still divides us.
COMMENTARY: If the Internet isn’t killing religion, what is?
By Tom Ehrich — April 22, 2014
(RNS) Religion in the U.S. went into decline 30 years before the Internet became commercially available.
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