Whatever happened to the National Council of Churches?  The
ecumenical organization of liberal mainline Protestants (plus
the Orthodox, which I never understood) known as the National
Council of Churches used to be enormously influential.  But now
it has dwindled to insignificance.  Jacob Lupner explains what
happened and how the NCC is trying to rise again. [Read more...]
Why do the Orthodox ally with liberal Protestants?  One of the
mysteries of the American religious scene is why all but one of
the Eastern Orthodox church bodies in this country are members
of the National Council of Churches, the mouthpiece for liberal
Protestant denominations.  Not only that, the NCC consistently
promotes abortion, homosexuality, a leftist social gospel, and a
whole array of doctrines opposed to the traditional theology the
Orthodox claim to champion.  And it isn’t like the Orthodox
representatives are speaking up all that much against the NCC’s
anti-orthodoxy.  John Lomperis of the Institute for Religion and
Democracy a