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by rchaud
1911 days ago
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What are the questions that church leaders are getting from their flock these days? Some big questions are being debated in society, sure, but the church's position on a lot of things is set in stone, is it not? Maybe this is my ignorance talking, but I thought those with active church membership continue to go to participate in social events and make friends/partners? |
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Some of the topics being discussed in our (US) church in the past couple of years:
* the devastating personal and economic toll of the pandemic and how we can help individually and in aggregate
* race relations in the US and the history of injustices caused by racism, including police brutality, and how we can respond in our daily lives
* LGBTQ-related topics, including the ability of people of different sexual identities to participate fully at all levels of the church hierarchy
* the environmental impact of our actions at the personal level all the way up to the institutional level as it pertains to human-caused climate change
You can find many churches in the US with people that believe in every possible belief related to all of these issues.
No, it's not just potlucks and singles nights :-)