United Church of Christ | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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United Church of Christ


00:01:57 1 History
00:02:41 2 Beliefs
00:04:16 2.1 Historic confessions
00:06:11 2.2 Studies and surveys of beliefs
00:09:09 2.3 Relationships with other denominations
00:11:19 2.4 Relationships with other religions
00:11:41 3 Structure
00:13:46 3.1 Local churches
00:18:20 3.2 Larger organizations
00:18:29 3.2.1 Associations
00:19:58 3.2.2 Conferences
00:22:22 3.2.3 General Synod
00:24:47 3.2.4 National offices: covenanted, affiliated, and associated ministries
00:25:33 3.2.4.1 Covenanted ministries
00:28:41 3.2.4.2 Affiliated ministry
00:29:50 3.2.4.3 Associated ministry
00:30:19 4 Activities
00:30:28 4.1 Civil Rights Movement
00:31:09 4.2 Social activism
00:31:29 4.2.1 Same-sex marriage
00:33:29 4.2.2 Apology Resolution
00:33:51 4.2.3 Statement on the relationship between Israel and Palestinians
00:35:34 4.3 Sexuality education
00:36:34 4.4 "God Is Still Speaking" identity campaign
00:38:21 5 Criticism
00:38:53 5.1 Criticism over same-sex marriage
00:39:28 6 Barack Obama and the UCC
00:41:18 7 Membership
00:43:16 8 United Church of Christ institutions
00:43:27 8.1 Officially related educational institutions
00:43:37 8.1.1 Seminaries
00:44:20 8.1.2 Colleges and universities
00:45:45 8.1.3 Secondary academies
00:46:01 8.2 Historically related educational institutions
00:46:11 8.2.1 Historically related seminaries
00:46:53 8.2.2 Historically related colleges and universities (Council for Higher Education)
00:48:03 8.2.3 Other colleges and universities (historically related, currently unrelated)
00:49:40 9 List of prominent UCC churches
00:52:55 10 List of famous UCC members
00:53:15 10.1 Politicians
00:55:04 10.2 Others
00:57:20 11 See also



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The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a liberal-leaning mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical confessional roots in the  Congregational, Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,956 churches and 854,000 members. The United Church of Christ is a historical continuation of the General Council of Congregational Christian churches founded under the influence of New England Pilgrims and Puritans. Moreover, it also subsumed the third largest Reformed group in the country, the German Reformed. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC. These two denominations, which were themselves the result of earlier unions, had their roots in Congregational, Lutheran, Evangelical, and Reformed denominations. At the end of 2014, the UCC's 5,116 congregations claimed 979,239 members, primarily in the U.S. In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 0.4 percent, or 1 million adult adherents, of the U.S. population self-identify with the United Church of Christ.The UCC maintains full communion with other mainline Protestant denominations.  Many of its congregations choose to practice open communion. The denomination places high emphasis on participation in worldwide interfaith and ecumenical efforts. The national settings of the UCC have historically favored liberal views on social issues, such as civil rights, LGBT rights, women's rights, and abortion. However, United Church of Christ congregations are independent in matters of doctrine and ministry and may not necessarily support the national body's theological or moral stances. It is self-described as "an extremely pluralistic and diverse denomination".