Posted in Religion and Popular Culture, tagged calendar, Chad Hardy, Columbia Missourian, disciplinary meeting, excommunicated, Heather Harrison, Las Vegas, LDS church, Men on a Mission, missionaries, Mormon, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on July 14, 2008| 2 Comments »
The creator of a calendar that featured shirtless Mormon missionaries was excommunicated Sunday from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after a disciplinary meeting with local church leaders in Las Vegas.
Chad Hardy, creator of the ‘Men on a Mission’ calendar, said:
“I felt like I spoke my truth. Bottom-line, they still felt the calendar is inappropriate and not the image that the church wants to have.”
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Posted in Christianity, Local, Religion and Politics, Religious Leaders, tagged Chad Day, Christianity, Churches, Columbia, congregations, faith, international, missionaries, missionary, missions, Missouri, Missouri8an, Missourian, MU, Princeton, religion, Robert Wuthnow, The New Christendom, U.S. Christianity, University of Missouri on April 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
American Christianity’s international influence is vibrant, Princeton professor and author Robert Wuthnow said Monday night.
Wuthnow cited the results of his three-year survey of U.S. Christian congregations that found the global role of American Christianity is expanding rather than weakening, as some prominent scholars have proposed.
“Evidence shows that the global outreach of churches in the United States is at an all-time high,” he said.
In his presentation at MU’s Memorial Union, Wuthnow said his survey refuted a main tenet of “The New Christendom” paradigm that states that the global influence of U.S. Christianity is waning.
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