The collapse of the liberal church
Posted on July 29, 2012
Filed under Opinion
“Two weeks from now, the United Church of Canada will assemble in Ottawa for its 41st General Council, where it will debate church policy and elect a new moderator. The top item on its agenda is a resolution calling for a boycott of products from Israeli settlements.
Fortunately, nobody cares what the United Church thinks about Israeli settlements, or anything else for that matter, because the United Church doesn’t matter any more. … the church is literally dying.”
– This opinion-piece by Margaret Wente in The Globe & Mail on The United Church of Canada has a similar tone to several articles published recently. See also:
- Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved?
- America’s liberal Christians might be progressive and inclusive, but they are also dying out.
- United Church of Canada: ‘celebrating post-theism’.
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