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#congregations — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. United Methodist clergy take a shepherding approach to encouraging racial awareness and racial justice activism in their congregations. Clergy may also be personally invested in racial justice separate from their congregations. Read more from Anna Holleman, Erin F. Johnston, and Kelsey Mischke in our forthcoming special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10
    #sociology #religion #Methodist #congregations #racialJustice

  2. #Churches fight to stay open as attendance and relevance dwindles - “In the late 1940s, nearly 80% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue, mosque or temple, according to Gallup. Today, just 45% say the same, the analytics company noted, and only 32% say that they worship God in a house of prayer once a week.” #Religion #Christianity #congregations

    abcnews.go.com/US/churches-fig

  3. Can #chatbots be #ministers? Hundreds attend #ChatGPT-led #church service - National | #Globalnews.ca

    "#Simmerlein said it is not his intention to replace religious leaders with #ArtificialIntelligence. Rather, he sees the use of #AI as a way to help them with their everyday work in their #congregations."

    globalnews.ca/news/9760086/cha