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I’ve seen those stats, too. Two things. First, for places like Pew, mainline means anyone who doesn’t self identify as Evangelical. Second, it’s personal identification, not church membership or attendance there’s no sign that mainline attendance is recovering, as far as I know. Not only have...

The weird thing is that this wasn’t actually any judgement on Biden's memory, just how a jury would likely see him. No ststement like, he didn’t remember as much as we would expect.

What do you mean by politically active? I’ve never heard discussion of political candidates or politics of any kind from the pulpit. We have groups doing various service projects. Our choir does concerts and visits other churches for worship. I’m not quite sure how politics would fit in. There...

Among other things, I wonder whether our tradition of not being political in sermons is hurting us. We don’t need to endorse candidates from the pulpit, but there are things where the Christian faith really does have implications I will say that our church, although smaller than it used to be...

The usual concern about this is how Christ is then the savior. Furthermore, it can’t be discussed here.

Not an approach a Protestantn would be likely to use.

I checked three commentaries. All of them held back from a simple equation, but expressed it differently. Probably the best was the note that in this time period, Jewish writers could call someone God without meaning the One God. From Haenchen’s Hermeneia commentary John 1:1 (Herm Jn 1): In...

How about no righteousness. Only God is righteous. Our job is to serve, not to be righteous or holy. Luke 17:9-10

There are degrees. See Wealth Inequality by Country 2024. Many successful countries have relatively lower inequality. Communist countries don't have low inequality. They just claim to.

Since we’re talking about Chritology, I’d be interested in an opinion from the orthodox folks. Did the human nature have a distinct human consciousness? If so, does that make him a separate subject? To my knowledge the ancient discussions never talked about what we‘d call consciousness. The...

I suspect what's going on here is that your initial statement looked like theologies that say the Word descended and became a human being, giving up his divine powers. Everyone agrees that God has the power to obliterate his enemies, and chose not to do that. But the orthodox view is that God...

I was thinking of statements like this: "Accordingly, when inspired writers on this matter speak of Him as eating and being born, understand that the body, as body, was born, and sustained with food corresponding to its nature, while God, the Word Himself, Who was united with the body, while...

Ceallaigh said: I said that the notion is Christ Himself put certain Godly attributes He had on hold. I think most Christians believe that Jesus could have obliterated His enemies any time he wanted to rather than choosing to go as a sheep to slaughter. That the only reason anyone had any kind...

I‘m staying out of this discussion in general, because the results of current NT scholarship are not acceptable under CF rules. But I would point out that Calvin considered the Son to be autotheos, and I don’t think he was alone. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/688974

I don’t think opinions have changed much within any group. But conservatives are louder, and have a better internet presence. In fact a decreasing number of Americans, even those for whom religion is very important, see the Bible as literally true. Fewer in U.S. Now See Bible as Literal Word of...

Here’s a review. US Divorce Rates Over Time and What the Numbers Really Mean | LoveToKnow. They’ve been going down in the last 10 years

As I recall, we actually did contact tracing in the early days. There was no way to require people to respond, but we did it. At least in New Jersey. However for it to work, high compliance and quick turnaround is needed, and it has to be started immediately. Effective contact tracing for...

>hedrick who I haven’t seen lately, I hope he is doing alright Yes, I'm fine. I've slowly concluded that it doesn't make sense to post on a forum where mainline Protestant theology is defined as non-Christian, and the most visible moral issues in the Church can't be discussed. Apologies.

The constitution says what the Supreme Court says it does. I’m guessing some states think it’s worth running this by the Court.

He says he accepts the resurrection. I don’t think an explanation of what he means and why would e acceptable under CF rules.