mainline Protestantism

Headed for a larger stage, Nadia Bolz-Weber leaves her ‘house’ in order

By Carina Julig — August 5, 2018
(RNS) — Seen as a tattooed rebel when she founded Denver's House for All Saints and Sinners, Nadia Bolz-Weber leaves her church a decade later as a model for mainline Protestant outreach.

Booker and Warren fuse faith and politics in appeal to mainline preachers

By Jack Jenkins — May 24, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Pairing religion with liberal politics, the two potential presidential candidates made an unusually direct appeal to mainline Christians.

Princeton seminary taking some heat for honoring Redeemer’s Tim Keller

By David Gibson — March 21, 2017
(RNS) The Manhattan pastor is popular — but his Presbyterian denomination does not ordain women or gays, and his traditionalism has some criticizing the more liberal Princeton Theological Seminary for giving Keller an award.

Conservative United Methodists say divide over sexuality is ‘irreconcilable’

By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — May 23, 2014
(RNS) Ten years after rejecting an “amicable separation” as premature, conservatives within the United Methodist Church now say a divorce is inevitable.

Q&A: Marilynne Robinson on guns, gay marriage and Calvinism

By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — May 9, 2014
(RNS) In an interview, Pultizer-prize winning writer Marilynne Robinson explained why she thinks Christians are fearful, why she loves John Calvin and whether she’ll join Twitter.
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