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Publications by Subject:  
mainline Protestants, liberal Protestants   

 

Show Me the Money, Religion in the News, Winter 2008, by Frank Kirkpatrick. 
The Episcopal Church fights hard to retain the cash and property of defecting parishes.

Maybe the Center Holds After All, Religion in the News, Fall 2006, by Frank Kirkpatrick.
The Episcopal crackup fails to materialize.

An Alliance with Liberal Religion?, Religion in the News, Winter 2006, by David A. Hollinger
"Secularism: A Symposium," a special supplement to Religion in the News

Presbyterians Divest the Jews, Religion in the News, Fall 2006, Andrew Walsh.
Two sometimes allies butt heads over Israel.

"Protestants in Decline," Religion in the News, Winter 2005, by Andrew Walsh.
Creeping secularism saps America's Protestant majority.

"Windsor Knot," Religion in the News, Winter 2005 by Michael McGough.
Journalists cut - sometimes too quickly - to the chase in covering an Anglican report about gay bishops, poaching prelates, and impaired communion.

"Religion Gap Swings New Ways", Religion in the News, Winter 2005.
The new swing voters are pretty regular attenders and mainline Protestants.

A Thorn in the Mainline's Side, Religion in the News, Summer 2004, by Alexis Schweizer.
The Institute for Religion and Democracy's Diane Knippers makes the media big time.

"Breaking Up is Hard to Do," Religion in the News, Spring 2004, by Frank Kirkpatrick.
Reports of Episcopal schism may be exaggerated.

"The Anglican Crackup," Religion in the News, Fall 2003, by Frank Kirkpatrick.
The consecration of a gay bishop sends the Anglican communion to the brink.

"The View From Lagos," Religion in the News, Fall 2003, by Matthew A. Ojo.
Nigerian Anglicans flex their muscles.

"Mainline Protestants," Religion in the News, Fall 2003, by Laura R. Olson..
Special Section on Religion and the 2004 Election.

"Ghosts of New York" , Religion in the News, Summer 2003 by Andrew Walsh.
Paul Moore's death brings the twilight of New York's Protestant establishment to a close.

"Choosing Up Sides in the Middle East",  Religion in the News, Fall 2002, by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor. Civilizations are clashing, and on the home front religions are too.

"What Would Moses Do?: Debt Relief in the Jubilee Year", Religion in the News, Spring 2001, [European journalists were impressed with the multi-religious international debt relief campaign, while U.S. journalists generally shortchanged it --  despite its impressive political victories here.], by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor

"The Never Ending Story", Religion in the News, Fall 2000, [the long struggle among mainline Protestants over demands of homosexuals], by Andrew Walsh, managing editor

"Go Down, Elian", Religion in the News, Summer 2000, [Elian Gonzalez as a political cause with religious significance], by Thomas Hambrick-Stowe, editorial assistant

"Charitable Choice and the New Religious Center", Religion in the News, Spring 2000, [faith-based social services and presidential politics], by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor

"The NCC’s Near-Death Experience", Religion in the News, Spring 2000, [financial and other woes of National Council of Churches], by Andrew Walsh, managing editor

"Methodism’s Time of Trials", Religion in the News, Summer 1999, [gay marriage and ecclesiastical trials], by Keith Hartman, journalist and freelance writer, Atlanta

"Kosovo: A Confusion of Tongues", Religion in the News, Summer 1999, [U.S. religious leaders divided on use of force], by Anthony Burke Smith, associate editor