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Political and social justice movements have contributed to the decline of American evangelicalism and the rise of more moderate Protestant sects.
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(CN) — On Independence Day, Belinda Kleeberger finally broke free.
The 66-year-old grandmother had only ever known her American Baptist church in small-town Maine. She had attended services there for six decades and was a leader in the church.
Kleeberger saw right-leaning political rhetoric grow there for the last few years, but the Fourth of July service was too much.
“Now it seems Jesus sat down with the Founding Fathers and helped them write the Constitution,” Kleeberger said. “I need a Jesus that transcends all that.”
She told her pastor that she needed to find another way. The conversation wasn’t easy, considering the pastor is Kleeberger’s sister-in-law.
Carolyn Wilkinson departed from her Southern Baptist Convention church in 2016.
Wilkinson had worshipped and studied many Western and Eastern disciplines; she was once a practicing Wiccan. Her fellow churchgoers wouldn’t let go of her past.
“No matter what, I was always going to be Carolyn the Witch,” the 54-year-old Maryland resident said.
Kleeberger and Wilkinson are part of a growing exodus from white evangelicalism.
White mainline Protestants now outnumber white Evangelicals, according to an extensive survey released July 8 by the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit polling organization.
More on this subject within the link above.
White Evangelicals are Going Moderate. How Will Conservative Churches Respond?
Political and social justice movements have contributed to the decline of American evangelicalism and the rise of more moderate Protestant sects.
Excerpts:
(CN) — On Independence Day, Belinda Kleeberger finally broke free.
The 66-year-old grandmother had only ever known her American Baptist church in small-town Maine. She had attended services there for six decades and was a leader in the church.
Kleeberger saw right-leaning political rhetoric grow there for the last few years, but the Fourth of July service was too much.
“Now it seems Jesus sat down with the Founding Fathers and helped them write the Constitution,” Kleeberger said. “I need a Jesus that transcends all that.”
She told her pastor that she needed to find another way. The conversation wasn’t easy, considering the pastor is Kleeberger’s sister-in-law.
Carolyn Wilkinson departed from her Southern Baptist Convention church in 2016.
Wilkinson had worshipped and studied many Western and Eastern disciplines; she was once a practicing Wiccan. Her fellow churchgoers wouldn’t let go of her past.
“No matter what, I was always going to be Carolyn the Witch,” the 54-year-old Maryland resident said.
Kleeberger and Wilkinson are part of a growing exodus from white evangelicalism.
White mainline Protestants now outnumber white Evangelicals, according to an extensive survey released July 8 by the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit polling organization.
More on this subject within the link above.