Meet the Press excludes mainline church voices is an interesting commentary at Spero News.
NBC's Meet the Press is wrong to ignore leaders of the nation's 45 million mainline Protestant, Orthodox and African American Christians, says the communications director of the 1.3-million-member United Church of Christ.
The Rev. Robert Chase says the annual "Faith in America" installment on Meet the Press, which aired on Easter Sunday, April 16, "totally shut out any representation from the nation's mainline churches."
For at least the second year in a row, NBC's invited panel of religious leaders included no representative from the National Council of Churches or any of its 35 member communions, such as the UCC, Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Evangelical Lutheran Ch urch in America, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Reformed Church in America, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.
Of course, the interesting question that so many of us mainline types refuse to ask is, "If we are so 'mainline' how is it that the media can be so dismissive without impunity?" Maybe it is because we have become the sideline instead.
