Comments on: It’s a lot easier to be Non-Religious

By: Eclectic Christian

Eclectic Christian — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:21:40 +0000

I think one reason why the Canadian Evangelical church has been healthier than the U.S. church over the past 20 years is that we have not gotten wrapped up in the culture war.

By: Michael Westmoreland-White

Michael Westmoreland-White — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:14:42 +0000

I think people are leaving the churches because the churches keep making headlines about how they hate gays or cheer on wars or support torture or subordinate women or divide “deserving poor” from “undeserving poor,” etc. These are NOT all the churches, but they are enough to give the rest bad names.

In the ’80s I kept telling people that if the Religious Right continued, it would kill off the U.S. churches–and it finally seems to have done it or close to it.

By: Eclectic Christian

Eclectic Christian — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:54:26 +0000

Thanks for the comment Fr. Orthohippo.

You can read all about my current church in my latest post in Eclectic Christian. For the record, it is a North American Baptist, though theologically I would be closest to the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Having help to close two Alliance churches in my area, we are now going to what seems to be the next best fit.

So, not Anglican, but like the words of Papa in the Shack, which I just finished reading, “I am especially fond of them.”

Mike Bell

By: Fr. Orthohippo

Fr. Orthohippo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:17:01 +0000

Michael, which church do you currently support? reading iMonk it seemed you might be Anglican. I am now Anglican (Missionary Society of St. John, ACNA}. I very much enjoyed your post on the average church.