Christian Churches Moving Leftward Together
By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com
June 26, 2007

“Christian Churches Together” (CCT) was to have been the new, more spiritually vibrant alterative to the decaying, chronically left-wing National Council of Churches. But instead, as reflected by its new Religious Left leader, CCT will likely become a tool for exporting the NCC’s failed brand of political activism into Catholic and evangelical circles.

Six years ago, with the National Council of Churches (NCC) then near collapse, CCT was initially conceived as a new coalition for mainline Protestants, Roman Catholics, Pentecostals, Eastern Orthodox and black church denominations.

But CCT is already quickly repeating the NCC’s mistake of substituting left-wing politics for faith. Emblematic of its new course is the hiring of a mainline Protestant bureaucrat, Richard Hamm, as its first full-time executive. Having recently quit after ten years as president of the Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, Hamm will help ensure that CCT becomes little more than a thin echo of the reflexively political NCC. the rest