This is it entirely, they’re bleeding members over stuff like this and their stupid shunning policy. Who knew doctrine designed to piss people off and make them leave your niche religion forever wasn’t a good way to retain people in the long-term after your predictions of imminent apocalypse don’t come to pass.
Couple that with all the sexual abuse lawsuits and you’ve got a serious financial squeeze on your hands. They’ve been selling assets left and right.
So which of the jhw leaders needed a blood transfusion? At least they didn’t choose the “rules for thee not for me” path, so that’s something.
Could be bottom up. Enough angry parents of sick kids and angry kids of sick parents demanding the church change or they’re leaving.
Wouldn’t be the first time reform came on the back of departing parishioners
This is it entirely, they’re bleeding members over stuff like this and their stupid shunning policy. Who knew doctrine designed to piss people off and make them leave your niche religion forever wasn’t a good way to retain people in the long-term after your predictions of imminent apocalypse don’t come to pass.
Couple that with all the sexual abuse lawsuits and you’ve got a serious financial squeeze on your hands. They’ve been selling assets left and right.
When it comes to organized religion, the bar is so incredibly low that this counts as uplifting news