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Geopardee
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re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 5:35 pm
Kind of surprised the UMC big tent held together for as long as it did.
Hard to fathom that a Hilary Clinton and a John Kennedy can both be members of the same church org.
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re: United Methodist Church votes to allow gay marriage and gay clergy
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 1:06 pm
Going to be a lot of empty church buildings for sale in the coming years
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re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:47 pm
The common denominator ...
re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:39 pm
Regarding the Presbyterians—lot of different Presbyterian break offs/denoms—but yes, as to the PCUSA, the largest, most progressive body.
The smaller, more conservative denoms (PCA, EPC, ECO) don’t countenance it and are either static or growing....
re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:32 pm
You would think it’s a $ move, but the denoms that went that route have lost considerably more members than others.
I think the PCUSA (largest Presbyterian denom), went from something like 3 million members in 1990 to around 1.25 million by the 2020s
Lot of these denoms are just living off the...
re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:23 pm
Story of Protestantism, but most of your mainline denoms have had similar crackups in the past decades, including the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians, over this and related issues. ...
re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?
Posted by Geopardee on 5/1/24 at 12:19 pm
It’s been going on for a minute in the United Methodist Church—now the not so United Methodist Church—but it reached a breaking point in the last year or so when the more conservative churches split off to form the Global Methodist Church. Much of the UMC institutional apparatus has been trying to p...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 4:49 pm
Right, there are plenty of regional variations on the theme. Memphis is not Mobile, Charleston is not Charlotte, etc, which may require different metrics.
I think part of it is what area still has [b]it[/b]—ie, hasn’t gotten the growth, for better or worse, of the Sunbelt blow up. ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 2:11 pm
The spread of NOVA and the carpetbaggers severely impacted VA’s historic Southern status. But certainly a lot still there. ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 11:07 am
Agree, from my limited visits, most of KY felt a lot like Middle TN, North MS/AL.
And I've never known how to classify Louisville at all. It's one of the 30 largest cities in the US (maybe by virtue of city/county consolidation), but it seems like it's just hanging out there. Doesn't have much ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 10:30 am
Yeah some of the transition areas on that map are suspect, but it got a good bit of the outlines down. ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 10:28 am
That said, I think AL gets the slight edge over MS for most quintessential "Southern." That Hwy 80 corridor is something else, even if MS has the Delta. ...
re: Most Southern State
Posted by Geopardee on 4/27/24 at 10:22 am
The South is a lot of different places
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re: Baton Rouge vs Austin
Posted by Geopardee on 4/25/24 at 8:34 pm
Much of the “old Austin” aka Keep Austin Weird character got eaten up with the emergence of the tech playground ...
re: Baton Rouge vs Austin
Posted by Geopardee on 4/25/24 at 8:03 pm
Also a good jump there in BR population from the 40s to the 50s...
re: Baton Rouge vs Austin
Posted by Geopardee on 4/25/24 at 8:00 pm
Yeah per census, Austin dusted BR a while ago, but there may have been a fighting chance
BR Historical population
Census Pop. Note %±
1810 469 —
1840 2,269 —
1850 3,905 72.1%
1860 5,428 39.0%
1870 6,498 19.7%
1880 7,197 10.8%
1890 10,478 45.6%
1900 11,269 7.5%
1910 14,897 32.2...
re: JFK related books-Recommended
Posted by Geopardee on 4/15/24 at 5:42 pm
Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh also worth a look ...
re: Happy 67th birthday to Vince Gill.....
Posted by Geopardee on 4/13/24 at 8:35 pm
His cover of I Can’t Tell You Why is smooth
[link=(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0kTXtskCvA)]I Can’t Tell You Why[/link]...
re: Weird community names in your current state of residence
Posted by Geopardee on 4/5/24 at 1:25 pm
Cut and Shoot, TX
Also hard to believe there is a Truth or Consequences, NM...
re: OT History Buffs Assemble! Lets discuss the early Confederate Ironclads
Posted by Geopardee on 4/2/24 at 5:42 pm
I have family whose firm outfitted the CSS Manassas (Enoch Train), and others, and have wanted to brush up on the topic. Haven't read the books, but it looks like there are a few journal articles (maybe free view, maybe not) on the approaches and strategy for the defense of NOLA, but you may have br...
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