..., these concepts are rarely or vaguely defined. We begin with a targeted overview of research on clergy speech before defining prophetic and pragmatic. Then, we briefly discuss attitudes toward the LGBTQ community among mainline Protestants, highlighting the UMC’s complicated denominational history with LGBTQ...

... of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]. 2017 Abstract This article analyzes explanations for growth and decline given by 22 clergy and 128 congregants from 21 mainline Protestant churches in Canada, including both growing and declining congregations...

... bioethics. After all, if Christian bioethics contributed to bioethical reflection only what a good secular bioethics can offer, why bother. However, now a distinctly Christian bioethics is growing. Christian Bioethics ecumenism mainline Christianity Paul Ramsey...

... identified ways they or their church have specifically attempted to reach out to PNWers through targeted outreach strategies, ministries, or programs. qualitative methods Protestant Christianity evangelical protestantism mainline Protestants United States of America culture place commitment Pacific...

... congregations—one evangelical Protestant and the other mainline Protestant. We find that aspects of religious giving are sacred at both churches, but how money is made sacred is distinct, revealing differences between sacralizing the act of giving versus the outcome. Although both cultures of sacralization...

... types. This enables us to overcome limitations in previous studies that relied on self-reported data alone. religious giving generosity congregations mainline Protestants evangelical Protestants qualitative methods American Christians, by virtue of their relative wealth, are in a financial position...

...This chapter shows how a group of mainline Protestants in the 1920s, with Amos Alonzo Stagg and Branch Rickey at the center, developed a “middlebrow” approach to engagement with sports. Stagg and Rickey contributed to the expansion of the two most popular team sports of the decade while also using...

... Roman Catholic, three mainline Presbyterian, three evangelical Anglican, and three African American Baptist congregations—twelve congregations in all—are studied qualitatively. This chapter tells the story of each of these twelve relationships from the perspective of respondents from the Washington, DC...

... contributed significantly. Although her religious views have been frequently denounced by the leaders of the religious right, they are shared by millions of mainline Protestants, including United Methodists. Clinton’s faith is more deeply rooted and fervent than many supporters, opponents, pundits...

...The introduction identifies the thesis that mainline Protestants by midcentury favored limited forms of pluralism and in turn fostered a more liberal immigration policy, while still hoping to Christianize the nation. This introduction outlines the structure of the book, while also drawing attention...

...This chapter continues to assess home mission programs and traces the diffusion of the social gospel within traditional, evangelistic ministries among mainline Protestants. Meanwhile, denominations were forced to retrench their budgets for home missions during the Great Depression. During this time...

...This chapter covers the World War II era and early Cold War period. During this period, mainline Protestants often promoted an “American Way of Life” while attending to Asian immigrants, Bracero workers, Japanese Americans in internment camps, and refugees through home missions. Nevertheless...

...This chapter examines various eco-justice perspectives against mountaintop removal in the twenty-first-century movement, including influences from Catholic social teachings and mainline Protestant social justice work. Many of these efforts first emerged in the War on Poverty era, transitioning...

...How can the churches be the Church? That central question remains pressing for the mainline Protestant churches in American public life. This sharpened in the wake of Interfaith Impact for Justice and Peace's demise, which cleared institutional ground for new ecumenical efforts by the National...

... activities of Methodists and mainline churches in its investigation of a generation of denominational strife among church officials, lobbyists, and activists. The result is an account that upends common stereotypes while asking questions about the contested relationship between church and state. Documenting...

...This introductory chapter examines the role of the past in mainline Protestant churches—more specifically the Congregationalists—and how they have coped with modern, twentieth-century American life. The religious history of the modern era was as much about fortress building as it was about...

...Paul Lichterman and Rhys H. Williams’s chapter focuses on theologically liberal Mainline Protestants, who have historically been at the forefront of many progressive religious actions. First, the chapter outlines some of the distinctive cultural challenges Mainliners face when they try to bring...

...This chapter focuses on the role of the churches in the post-emancipation era and the emergence of the distinction between “mainline” churches (European-derived, with high status) and “clap-hand” churches (Evangelical and Pentecostal groups that originated mainly in the United States...

...0 28 02 1991 The mainstream churches in America today face a serious crisis. For over two decades now mainline communions-such as the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church, and the United Church of Christ-have faced staggering membership declines...

...Pundits routinely treat mainline Protestant intellectuals as naïve idealists who lost their constituents' confidence by veering into ultra-leftism and its institutions—including its journals—as approaching the bottom of a slippery slope leading to institutional death, greased by compromises...