What do creeds have to do with justice?
Peter Laarman at Religion Dispatches discusses the issue of just how important theological doctrine actually is:
I must say that I will never be comfortable around US Christians who claim to be progressive on various social issues, but who remain doctrinally rigid in respect to faith itself. Experiences teaches me that these folks will almost always [...]
Is Mainline Christianity Irrelevant?
Mainline churches have been declining for decades. Such sad news is not new. As Greeley & Hout (2006) argue, the reason for this is primarily two-fold: 1) people in “conservative” denominations are switching to mainline churches at a much reduced rate and 2) people in conservative churches tend to have more babies. On the one [...]
