Posted on 07/02/2015 11:13:15 AM PDT by GulliverSwift
The New York Times published a piece this week headlined “United Church of Christ Approves Divestment to Aid Palestinians.” It begins:
The United Church of Christ, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States, overwhelmingly approved a resolution Tuesday calling for divestment from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation or control of Palestinian territories, and a boycott of products from Israeli settlements.
Leaving aside the divestment issue, this is an incorrect statement. The United Church of Christ is not one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States. Its membership peaked in 1960 at 2.2 million adherents. It slipped under a million members a couple years ago and is now down to only 979,239 members.
That means there are many, many, many Protestant denominations that are larger than the United Church of Christ. Back when it had 80,000 members more than it does now, there were at least 20 Protestant denominations that were larger.
The church has been hemorrhaging members for decades. It’s a personal story for me. My mom left the church in the late 1960s to become confessional Lutheran. The last family member who remained in the UCC escaped (also to become confessional Lutheran) a few years ago. The church takes hardline progressive positions on every issue, paired with lax doctrinal approaches on sacraments and Scripture. The result has been a steady driving away of members. Men, in particular, have fled. Only 38 percent of its members are male.
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One of the top 100 denominations.
One of the top apostate denominations, maybe.
Well this just shows the ignorance of the NY Times and their liberal irreligious reporters.
The UCC is neither for Christ nor a church... it is a bunch of liberals who think they are a church.
Denominations are Sheep Pen’s..
Sometimes; Vulture, Hyena, Pig, Tiger, Mole, Snake, and Vampire Bat Pens..
Is the Roman Catholic Church a denomination?.. of course..
as are all orthodox organizations..
Does that make them BAD?... Depends on what you think about pens..
Who is Mollie H to tell the New York Times that IT is WRONG? Just because she has the facts and the truth is no reason for her to challenge them. (sarcasm)
The NY Slimes is confused about a lot of things.
“Only 38 percent of its members are male.”
And they’re only sticking around because of the male-female ratio :)
Our Confessional Lutheran congregation has been steadily growing the past few years. I expect it to jump again soon. I have even had Catholics ask questions about my church (!?!) because they are dissatisfied. (Yeah, I’m guessing they probably don’t know the history there...)
Many of the UCC churches left the denomination when it decided to accept homosexual clergy. And most of the mainline membership numbers are vastly inflated. The likelihood is they now probably only get a couple hundred thousand people nationally show up to their churches. They are pretty much empty, like most of the mainline churches.
Kinda like the Episcopalians? Sorta like a Sunday morning Country Club?
I would depend on the media for information concerning Christian, quasi Christian and pseudo Christian religious entities about as soon as I’d depend on them for firearms facts. (Que the poster of journalist’s identifications of the AK 47)
This is how propaganda works - make the minority look like the majority.
My neighbor left after they hired a lesbian to be “pastor.” She never moved on to another church.
The United Church of Christ, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States, overwhelmingly approved a resolution Tuesday calling for divestment from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation or control of Palestinian territories, and a boycott of products from Israeli settlements.Leaving aside the divestment issue, this is an incorrect statement. The United Church of Christ is not one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States. Its membership peaked in 1960 at 2.2 million adherents. It slipped under a million members a couple years ago and is now down to only 979,239 members. That means there are many, many, many Protestant denominations that are larger than the United Church of Christ. Back when it had 80,000 members more than it does now, there were at least 20 Protestant denominations that were larger.
PFL
I’m sure the NY Times thinks it’s still one of the most-read “newspapers” in America, too. Only if you count parakeets.
It’s amazing what the NY believes is truth. A little bit of good reporter type work and they wouldn’t have been surprised. I guess they think that non UCC folks aren’t worthy enough to have their opinions matter
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