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In the early 2000s, she chose to leave active ministry, while retaining her ordination. Her memoir of this time Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith was the first of a trilogy of books about redefining her faith followed by An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith and Learning to Walk in the Dark.
According to Meredith McGuire (2002), in a book about the social context in religion, if the religious affiliation was a big part of a leaver's social life and identity, then leaving can be a wrenching experience, and the way in which one leaves a religious group is another factor that may aggravate problems. McGuire writes that if the response ...
Through this alternative policy, also known as UMC Book of Discipline paragraph 2549, those conferences formally closed a church that sought to leave and allow it to retain its property. But the ...
The cascade of churches voting to leave the UMC centers on one policy: the denomination’s as-yet-unofficial commitment to both ordain and marry LGBT people within the church. Formally, The Book ...
Recent studies show that beginning in 2021, young women are leaving the church at equal or higher rates than young men, and experts say disillusionment over church sexual abuse scandals is among ...
"Rubel Shelly Leaving Church to Teach in Michigan College." The Tennessean. 02/01/05. Online edition. Accessed 11/19/07. Edwards reviews Shelly's tenure at Woodmont Hills Church of Christ and announces his move to Rochester College. Elliott, Raymond. "Book Review: The Jesus Proposal by Rubel Shelly & John O. York" accessed 20 Dec. 2007.
His 2012 book Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt talks about his life from childhood, [6] and his 2016 book, A Little History of Religion (published by Yale University Press), has [clarification needed] received positive reviews from Peter Stanford of The Observer, [7] Ian Thomson of The Financial Times ("exhaustive account ...
Martha Nibley Beck, daughter of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley and author of bestseller Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith. Sarissa Hahn, Entrepreneur; Steve Benson, cartoonist and grandson of LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson [95] Patrick Califia, sexuality writer; Brian Evenson, American writer of literary and ...