Pastoring a UCC church in Hawaii years ago, Tony Robinson convened an “interfaith dialogue” that included representatives from several of the world’s major religions. He discovered that while the other participants had no trouble articulating what their respective faiths stood for, the UCCers were at a loss, unable to define what they believed about their own.
This led Robinson to conclude that mainline Protestant churches tend to know what they’re against, just not what they’re for!
Then again, as with so much of mainline Protestantism, the origins of this peculiar malady are rooted in secular, elite opinion. Of course.
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