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English
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Where Are Our Churches Today? A Report on the Environmental Positions of the Thirty Largest Christian Denominations in the United States
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Firmament
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Winter 1991
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2
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no.4
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Over 70% of all U. S. Christians are now in denominations that either have active ecology ministries or are beginning to assemble ecological ministries." Programs are underway in the United Methodist Church (3rd largest), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (5th), Presbyterian Church (USA) (8th), United Church of Christ (14th), Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (20th), and programs are beginning in the Catholic Church (1st), the Southern Baptist Convention (2nd), the National Baptist Convention of America (9th), the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod (10th), the Episcopal Church (12th), American Baptist Churches USA (13th), and the Seventh-day Adventist Church (24th). The larger denominations that have taken no action are the National Baptist Convention (4th), the Church of God in Christ (Memphis, TN) (7th), and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints has made a formal commitment to inaction (6th). (Abstract from Environmental History, vol. 2, #1)