The Church Trap

Churches today are caught in a sociological trap. Parishioners want to keep comfortable status quo organization. Churchmen feel pressure to modernize, to "get where the action is." This book is a provovative and zesty analysis of the problem. The churches have followed corporations in emphasizing fat figures and solid annual growth. If religion were sold like stocks you would have the "High fliers" like the booming Southern Baptists and the Roman Catholics, the "blue chip" denominations - Episcopalians. Congregationalists, and Presbyterians-and then those with small growth potential like the Jews.

Most clergyment of the various faiths, needless to say, are not alcholic or homosexual. On the other hand enough clergymen have these problems to cause concern, and beyond the slippery labels of neuroses there enough inward tortured people in the clergy to make church authorities wonder what in heaven is wrong.