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New policy says PCUSA employees need not share 'creed' or 'religious affiliation'

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An amendment to delete two of the 12 protected categories in the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Churchwide Plan for Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action failed during Thursday afternoon’s Presbyterian Mission Agency Board meeting. Saying that he believed that it was important for the PCUSA to say that “people need to be Christians…

Is religious affiliation the driving factor in charitable giving?

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By Matthew Brown For decades the philanthropic world was divided into two communities: the religious and the secular. The religious consisted exclusively of congregations that dealt with spiritual development of their followers, while the secular took in everything else, from disaster relief and health care to environmental causes. “But everyone knew the (secular) group was…

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