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Churches today are trapped in a sociological trap. Parishioners want to keep comfortable status quo firm. Churchmen feel the pressure to modernize, to "get where the action is". This publication is a provocative and zesty analysis of the trouble. Dishonest to God? The churches have followed businesses in emphasizing excess fat figures and sturdy annual growth. If religious beliefs were sold like shares you would hold the "high fliers" like the flourishing Southern Baptists and the Roman Catholics, the "blue chip" denominations - Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians - and then those with small growth probable, like the Jews. The "sick" clergy: Most clergymen of the various faiths, needless to say, aren't alcoholic or homosexual. Alternatively enough clergymen have these problems to cause concern, and beyond the slippery labels of neuroses there are enough inward tortured people in the clergy to make church authorities think about what in heaven is incorrect. The future: One of the basic models for churchly change is ecumenism, but although ecumenism may look good on the drawing board, it has some very formidable hurdles before it . There is no sign in the heavens that the planned religions in the us will be awarded a resurrection.
