Can people PLEASE help me contact #churches/ #priests/places of worship/ community groups & ask if they can help me find somewhere to live? If one can’t then they are affiliated with others that might and can ask people in their congregation. Put a plea on their message board irl or Facebook/ whatever online presence they have.
I am living with abuse /neglect and can’t do this anymore.
I went to St Enodoc's last Sunday. It lies in the middle of a golf course, at the mouth of the River Camel. Its origins are C12th, but by the C19th it was almost submerged by sand dunes, and the congregation had to climb in through a hole in the roof.
It was dug out and restored in the 1860s, and its main claim to modern fame is as the last resting place of the poet John Betjeman.
There's more on Betjeman in my reply to this post. 🧵 1
Jason DeRose reports on the recently published finding of PRRI that people in the U.S. are leaving churches in record numbers, and about a quarter of Americans now identify as religiously unaffiliated, "a number that has risen over the last decade and is now the largest single religious group in the U.S."
PRRI asked those leaving churches why they are leaving:
"And nearly half (47%) of respondents who left cited negative teaching about the treatment of LGBTQ people.
Those numbers were especially high with one group in particular.
'Religion's negative teaching about LGBTQ people are driving younger Americans to leave church,' [Melissa] Deckman [of PRRI] says."
"We found that about 60% of Americans who are under the age of 30 who have left religion say they left because of their religious traditions teaching, which is a much higher rate than for older Americans.'"
"Almost half of those who indicated that they are now religiously unaffiliated — nearly a fifth of the country — say their former religion’s hostility to LGBTQ+ Americans played a role.