At the Library Today

I was at the library today looking for some books when I ran across an early history of the United Church of Christ (from 1962, if I recall correctly). That being just five years after the merger of the E&R and Congregational Christian Churches, I doubt the author had any idea just what the organization he was so pleased to see come about would amount to. Despite being outside the UCC for six years now, I still feel connected to it and saddened by its decent into heresy. The UCC is the decedent of the very churches of the Pilgrims (literally) and some of the very earliest Evangelical Germans to come into the United States.

It could have tapped this rich heritage to do great things for God in the U.S., but instead it continues to sink in the theological swamp it willingly entered. I wonder if that author ever would have imagined the UCC would become most closely aligned with the Unitarians or if he thought it would promote goddess worship. I doubt it. I doubt most of its founders would have guessed that.