From Mainline to Sideline: The Social Witness of the National Council of Churches

by K. Lloyd Billingsley

Book Overview

Despite charges that the National Council of Churches funneled money to Marxist-Leninist governments and insurgencies, there has been no sustained examination of the NCC's politics, social policy, and spending habits. In From Mainline to Sideline, journalist K.L. Billingsley documents a pattern of political partisanship by the NCC. He describes the lack of structural coherence, the gap between the church elites and the people in the pews, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896331423
• ISBN13: 9780896331426
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"