From the January/February, 2001 issue of *Touchstone*

The Fear of Renewal by Mark Tooley

The Fear of Renewal

Seminary Event Blasts Mainline Reform Groups

by Mark Tooley

An October 19, 2000 conference at Union Theological Seminary in New York City spotlighted the “threat” posed to “mainline Christianity” and “fundamental democratic freedoms” by conservative renewal groups within mainline churches.

Speakers included a former moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a United Methodist Women’s Division executive, the head of the Interfaith Alliance, and the president of Union Seminary. A cosponsor of the event was the Institute for Democracy Studies (IDS), a fairly new leftist group that seems to specialize in investigations of vast right-wing reli . . .

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