- Apr 30, 2013
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The pastor at the church I have been going to has suggested that I should go to school and become a theologian, and that I would find a welcome home in the ELCA. I have reflected on this, and my main concern is that the trajectories of American religion are heavily shaped so much by the culture, especially the polemicism and politicization of religion. I'm worried if I took that step, I'd be compromising my integrity, just casting pearls before swine.
I guess the only reason I find a home in liberal churches is that I'm very much OK with churches accepting gay people. But otherwise my inclinations aren't particularly in line with liberal Protestantism. I'm very uncomfortable with the inroads that feminism and skepticism have made into mainline churches such as the ELCA. So much of the liturgy already is shaped by gender-neutral language that I feel it is impoverishing to the sense of the sacred, at points its just barely recognizable as Christian in some of the language. And I fear it is only going to get worse.
I guess the only reason I find a home in liberal churches is that I'm very much OK with churches accepting gay people. But otherwise my inclinations aren't particularly in line with liberal Protestantism. I'm very uncomfortable with the inroads that feminism and skepticism have made into mainline churches such as the ELCA. So much of the liturgy already is shaped by gender-neutral language that I feel it is impoverishing to the sense of the sacred, at points its just barely recognizable as Christian in some of the language. And I fear it is only going to get worse.