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There’s something about the writings of David Hayward (the naked pastor) that seem to just sing to something within me. Ignoring the specifics of the details —the dwelling place of the devil, remember?— allows me to sense that the resonating “stuff” can be heard in his painfully open, blues-style authenticity.
“Love me, if you please. Leave me if you don’t. Either way, here I am, warts and all.”
Life: A monthly magazine of Christian metaphysics
It’s true! Thanks, Google.
The Southern Baptist Convention—the largest and most conservative Protestant denomination in the USA—records a continued decline in baptisms and an increasingly aging membership. [A]ccording to journalist Christine Wicker (see her book, The Fall of Evangelical Nation), the internal number of active members may well be around 5 million people.
The Anglican Church of North America, the umbrella group for conservative Episcopalians […] has long claimed over 100,000 members. Recently, they admitted that only 69,000 persons in 650 churches in the USA and Canada have joined their association. [since there are over 3 million Episopalians in the USA and Canada,] the conservative group—the one that has garnered so much media attention in recent years is a very small percentage of the entire North American Anglican membership—some 2% of the total.
President Jimmy Carter [explained why] he renounced his life-long affiliation with the Southern Baptists[….] He denounced [the SBC] statement that women are inferior to men[…] and that Southern Baptist views on gender were contrary […] the teachings of Jesus.
