United States Episcopal Church - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 14 Mar 2022 07:09:55 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg United States Episcopal Church - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Episcopal Bishop Curry says ‘more to do' as poll shows Christians viewed as hypocrites https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/03/14/episcopal-bishop-curry-says-more-to-do-as-poll-shows-christians-viewed-as-hypocrites/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 06:53:33 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=144655 Ask a Christian to describe other Christians, and the answers likely will be "giving," "compassionate," "loving", and "respectful." Ask a non-Christian on the other hand, and the more likely descriptors you'll get for Christians are "hypocritical," "judgmental", and "self-righteous." Non-Christians are also far more likely to say Christians do not represent the teachings of Jesus. Read more

Episcopal Bishop Curry says ‘more to do' as poll shows Christians viewed as hypocrites... Read more]]> Ask a Christian to describe other Christians, and the answers likely will be "giving," "compassionate," "loving", and "respectful."

Ask a non-Christian on the other hand, and the more likely descriptors you'll get for Christians are "hypocritical," "judgmental", and "self-righteous."

Non-Christians are also far more likely to say Christians do not represent the teachings of Jesus.

Those are the results of a new survey conducted by the Episcopal Church that illustrates stark differences between how Christians and non-Christians view Christianity in the United States.

"There is a disconnect between the reality of Jesus and the perceived reality of Christians," said Bishop Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

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In 1998, John Shelby Spong, then the reliably controversial Episcopal bishop of Newark, published a book entitled "Why Christianity Must Change or Die." Spong was a uniquely radical figure — during his career, he dismissed almost every element of traditional Christian faith as so much superstition — but most recent leaders of the Episcopal Church Read more

Can liberal Christianity be saved?... Read more]]> In 1998, John Shelby Spong, then the reliably controversial Episcopal bishop of Newark, published a book entitled "Why Christianity Must Change or Die." Spong was a uniquely radical figure — during his career, he dismissed almost every element of traditional Christian faith as so much superstition — but most recent leaders of the Episcopal Church have shared his premise. Thus their church has spent the last several decades changing and then changing some more, from a sedate pillar of the WASP establishment into one of the most self-consciously progressive Christian bodies in the United States.

As a result, today the Episcopal Church looks roughly how Roman Catholicism would look if Pope Benedict XVI suddenly adopted every reform ever urged on the Vatican by liberal pundits and theologians. It still has priests and bishops, altars and stained-glass windows. But it is flexible to the point of indifference on dogma, friendly to sexual liberation in almost every form, willing to blend Christianity with other faiths, and eager to downplay theology entirely in favor of secular political causes. Read more

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Ross Douthat joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2009.

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