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Early projected Illinois football spring depth chart
- By bucshon
- Grange Grove
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Let me know if you see any glaring errors.
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Too early projected Illinois football spring depth chart
With the football season in the books, Orange and Blue News take a (very) early look at the projected spring depth chart
..and in other news
- By AzIllini
- Oskee Wow Wow
- 2597 Replies
Warning: rant follows.
Lazy Journalism. Apparently WAPO wrote an article about a church in N Hollywood (LA) that a Fox online reporter paraphrased and posted on Fox. I can't read the WAPO original but this Fox version stinks. A few annedotes lifted from WAPO, some inserted stats on what percent of the voters in LA voted for Trump, and an implication that somehow Trump's performance has something to do with people leaving this church. It was a stupid article even before he inserted the mention of Trump.
If you study what he lifts from WAPO, this church is part of the Disciples of Christ, a mainstream protestant denomination. If you go to their website, they are a liberal activist denomination. However searching further, their local churches are self governing, meaning the denomination doesn't interfere too much.
So what really happened? Until recently, this local church was led by the same person for 52 years, who never talked about politics. Meanwhile the national denomination was moving left and training up "reverends" to be liberal activists. The new pastor who is quoted several times is obviously an activist and does talk politics. So the long term relationships built despite political differences suddenly are put at odds in a church setting. Republicans don't want to be forced to watch movies about "Christian Nationalism" and apparently some of the Dems objected to other members attending the inauguration.
What the article should have communicated is that once a denomination starts preaching politics and taking a side, people who don't agree will move on. Instead the headline is: "Local church struggles to be neutral as members leave over political differences". The reverend is doing what he was trained to do and promulgating the liberal theology of the denomination.
ps. this denomination had 2 million members in the 1950's and now is down to 300,000, with less than 100,000 actively attending services per Wikipedia. Sounds like WAPO will soon need to get new sources for these articles.
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Lazy Journalism. Apparently WAPO wrote an article about a church in N Hollywood (LA) that a Fox online reporter paraphrased and posted on Fox. I can't read the WAPO original but this Fox version stinks. A few annedotes lifted from WAPO, some inserted stats on what percent of the voters in LA voted for Trump, and an implication that somehow Trump's performance has something to do with people leaving this church. It was a stupid article even before he inserted the mention of Trump.
If you study what he lifts from WAPO, this church is part of the Disciples of Christ, a mainstream protestant denomination. If you go to their website, they are a liberal activist denomination. However searching further, their local churches are self governing, meaning the denomination doesn't interfere too much.
So what really happened? Until recently, this local church was led by the same person for 52 years, who never talked about politics. Meanwhile the national denomination was moving left and training up "reverends" to be liberal activists. The new pastor who is quoted several times is obviously an activist and does talk politics. So the long term relationships built despite political differences suddenly are put at odds in a church setting. Republicans don't want to be forced to watch movies about "Christian Nationalism" and apparently some of the Dems objected to other members attending the inauguration.
What the article should have communicated is that once a denomination starts preaching politics and taking a side, people who don't agree will move on. Instead the headline is: "Local church struggles to be neutral as members leave over political differences". The reverend is doing what he was trained to do and promulgating the liberal theology of the denomination.
ps. this denomination had 2 million members in the 1950's and now is down to 300,000, with less than 100,000 actively attending services per Wikipedia. Sounds like WAPO will soon need to get new sources for these articles.
Los Angeles church struggles to be neutral as members leave over political differences
The pastor of First Christian Church of North Hollywood has struggled being politically neutral while his congregation has been divided over politics before and after the last election.