theophiles.org - Will United Church 'throw in the towel?'

theophiles.org

Love of God. Love of neighbor. Love of news.

Feeds

Make a Donation

Lots of time and effort goes into creating and maintaining this site. If we've helped you, consider making a donation.

Current Poll

I'm thinking that the new pope should be...

	like unto Wezlo in wisdom and godliness, but way more photogenic than he.
	more liberal.
	really old skool.
	heavily bearded.
	less white.
	less male.

Support Us!

Buy theophiles merchandise from our store!

Visit our store for more products!

Latest News

Latest Journals

News Topics | Page 2 Topics

Will United Church 'throw in the towel?'

Church

Written by holmegm

Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:21

From The National Post:

"Shouldn't the United Church Just Throw in the Towel?" is the opening event of a four-day Church-sponsored conference that will look at the future of the country's largest Protestant denomination.
"If the people who are allegedly in a position of leadership, vision and inspiration for your organization are having that question, it tells you there is something very disturbing at the heart of the Church," said Rev. denBok, who is a pastor at a Toronto parish.

Comments

jgjackson - Wow

|2008-06-19 12:53:01

It sounds like the "United" "Church" threw in the towel a long time ago.

wezlo - Wow...

|2008-06-19 13:27:30

Quote:

"We have a huge number of deeply demoralized clergy, congregations dwindling and dying, and either we say, 'Gosh, we've hit a dead end and should consider changing direction,' or we say, 'Our direction has been a good and righteous one and we're not getting anywhere with it and we should shut the whole organization down."

False dichotomy anyone?

bigbenaugust

|2008-06-20 16:29:21

But where are all of the Canadians going to go to church?

Seriously now, it sounds very nice and European...

Quote:

Rev. denBok, who will be on tonight's panel, said the United Church has moved from being a Christ-centred body to become a "government-sponsored social club" in which all classic Christian doctrines are open to question.

If that's true, why not save the Canadians taxpayers a little money and shut it down and start going to the pub instead.

Only registered users can write comments!

Our valuable member holmegm has been with us since Thursday, 03 April 2008.

Show Other Articles

Russian army introduces the flying Orthodox church... (04 April 2013)
Faith - and a side of fries (31 March 2013)
Resigning From the AARP (22 February 2013)
On Metrorail, pastor tries to raise Christmas spir... (27 December 2012)
Tulsi Gabbard, First Hindu Elected To Congress, Wi... (20 November 2012)

Statistics

Members : 38602
Content : 1256
Content View Hits : 5902633