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Mainline Churches Lose Overall on Budget but Emerge With Clearer Voice

by RNS Blog Editor
December 30, 2005

c. 2005 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ When mainline Protestant leaders came here last March to denounce President Bush's proposed budget as ``unjust,'' they were received much like the Old ...

Two Largest Mainline Protestant Churches to Share Holy Communion Table

by RNS Blog Editor
August 12, 2005

c. 2005 Religion News Service ORLANDO, Fla. _ Lutherans and Methodists, comprising the nation's two largest mainline Protestant churches, will share in the sacrament of Holy Communion under an interim ...

NEWS FEATURE: If You Look, Mainline Protestant Success Stories Abound

by RNS Blog Editor
January 12, 2005

c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It was a prayer meeting that looked like a needlework class. The 19 women who met to knit and crochet prayer shawls at a ...

NEWS FEATURE: Mainline Protestants Going Back to Church Planting

by RNS Blog Editor
January 1, 2003

c. 2003 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ The sign outside says St. Patrick Episcopal Church, and the architecture of the steepled brick building with a bell tower and the crushed-stone ...

NEWS FEATURE: Korean Presbyterians poised to influence mainline denomination

by RNS Blog Editor
January 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Two years ago, so few people were attending Broughton Presbyterian Church in Bloomfield, N.J., it could no longer support a full-time pastor. Meanwhile, ...

NEWS FEATURE: Scholar urges Jews to look to mainline Christians to ease millennial fears

by RNS Blog Editor
January 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ At best, the turn of the millennium may turn out to be a massive display of Christmas consumerism and media extravaganzas. At worst, ...

NEWS FEATURE: In Ohio, mainline meets evangelical _ musically

by RNS Blog Editor
January 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Cover up the organ. Empty the choir loft. Pack away the liturgical robes. And bring on the T-shirts, sandals and electric guitars. Some ...

NEWS STORY: Former director sues mainline lobbying group

by RNS Blog Editor
January 1, 1997

c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Rev. James M. Bell, former executive director of Interfaith Impact, says the influential religious lobbying group was killed _ and his contract ...

COMMENTARY: The ambiguities of the `mainline’ label

by RNS Blog Editor
January 1, 1997

c. 1997 Religion News Service (Pamela H. Long, a writer and teacher, is a former religion reporter for the Mobile Register in Mobile, Ala.) UNDATED _ A caller once asked ...

NEWS STORY: Hong Kong mainline leaders have divergent views on return to China

by RNS Blog Editor
January 1, 1997

c. 1997 Religion News Service HONG KONG _ For the Rev. Tso Man-king, general secretary of the Hong Kong Christian Council (HKCC), the impending July 1 return of the British ...

TOP STORY: THE CHANGING NATURE OF FAITH: Mainline churches seek marketing help to fill empty pews

by RNS Blog Editor
November 6, 1996

c. 1996 Religion News Service GRESHAM, Ore. _ It's 9 a.m. on Sunday, and the sanctuary of Gresham United Methodist Church is empty. Row after row of pews, made in ...

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