President Livingston Challenges Communicators

President Livingston Challenges Communicators: "leveland, March 28, 2006 – The president of the National Council of Churches, the Rev. Michael Livingston, strongly urged church communicators to, “Tell our story. By any means necessary.”

“Mainline Protestant and Orthodox churches have been pounded into irrelevancy by the media machine of a false religion,” Livingston said. He described what passes as religion to be, “a political philosophy masquerading as gospel; an economic principle wrapped in religious rhetoric and painted red, white and blue.”

Livingston made his remarks this week (March 27) in Cleveland at the semi-annual meeting of the National Council’s Communications Commission. He spoke to about 30 communicators from many of the NCC’s 35 member denominations."