The Field Research Corp. poll said 62 percent of Californians disapprove of Bush's performance and 64 percent said the country is going in the wrong direction; 26 percent said the country is on the right track.
Field's February poll of 729 adults taken from April 3 to April 7 said 56 percent disapproved of the president's performance and 38 percent approved.
Read more"I was hoping that it would be a strong vote because you want it to be a united favorable outcome," White said.
The congregation has been discussing leaving the ELCA for about three years because of concerns about the direction the ELCA has taken, including a study it conducted regarding homosexuality. That study examined a proposal of ordaining people who are in homosexual relat ionships and providing blessings for homosexual couples.
Read moreIn a day of back-to-back interviews with the television, radio and print media, including The Washington Post, Robinson made his first public comments on Monday's report by a special commission on how to bridge the deep rifts over homosexuality in the 77 million-member Anglican Communion and its U.S. affiliate, the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church.
Read more He sent messengers with a letter to King Hezekiah saying: "Do not
let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, 'Jerusalem will not
be handed over to the king of Assyria.' Surely you have heard what the
kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them
completely. And will you be delivered? Did the gods of the nations that
were destroyed by my forefathers deliver them - the gods of Gozan,
He was editor of The Alliance Witness for many years, and his editorials were collected into a number of books. In his classic, The Knowledge of the Holy, he wrote,
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December 2012
Dear VOL friend and loyal supporter,
2013 was another tumultuous year in the life of the Anglican Communion.
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