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Steeplejacking: How The Christian Right Is Highjacking Mainstream Religion

Steeplejacking Sheldon Culver and John Dorhauer, two of my clergy colleagues in the United Church of Christ, have just published an important new book that outlines how conservative political organizations are seeking with intention to destroy mainline denominations in an effort to silence prophetic Christian voices on issues ranging from peace and justice efforts to global warming.

Steeplejacking: How The Christian Right Is Highjacking Mainstream Religion looks specifically at how well financed groups like the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) and their affiliates, such as Biblical Witness Fellowship, work to drive wedges between local congregations and their national denominations.  As Culver and Dorhauer report, IRD and BWF even seek to bring churches out of the United Church of Christ and other mainline bodies and into more conservative alliances.  This book is worth taking note of.      

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