Quotes in the News: ‘Religious Right’

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“Terminology is fraught with peril. People associated (‘religious right’) with a hard-edge politics and intolerance. Very few people to whom that term now would apply would use that term.”

John Green

Senior fellow with the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, talking about why the term “religious right” has fallen out of favor (Christianity Today/RNS)

 

“It’s a religious crisis for sure. And to the extent that these churches are anchoring institutions, it’s a crisis of community."

Daniel Wolpert

Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Crookston, Minn., a partner with the Fund for Theological Education that supports young ministers, discussing the plight of rural churches, fewer than half of which have full-time seminary-trained pastors (Time/RNS)

 

“It’s probably five to seven times easier to plant a new church than to help an established church that’s in deep difficulty to restore its vitality. I wouldn’t discourage established churches from doing that, but it’s much more fruitful and efficient to plant new churches.”


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David T. Olson

Director of the American Church Research Project (RNS)

 


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