A suburban Philadelphia school teacher who was suspended and sent home for blogging about her students anonymously is not only not apologizing, she’s back blogging.
Natalie Monroe, a Central Bucks East High School English teacher, says her blog was never meant to be widely read and she had only nine followers — seven friends, her husband and herself — when some students apparently discovered it last week.
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The Roman Catholic Church (No. 1) and the Southern Baptist Convention (No. 2) are still significantly larger than all other North American denominations, but Catholics posted minimal growth of less than 1%, and Southern Baptist membership fell for a third straight year, according to the 2011 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churchespublished this week.
The figures in the 2011 yearbook, compiled by churches in 2009 and reported to the council in 2010, show that mainline Protestant churches continue the decline in memberships that began in the 1970s. The newest numbers show that the membership drop in mainline churches led to a 1% decrease in total U.S. church membership, to 145.8 million.
The Presbyterian Church (USA) led with the greatest membership drop of the 25 largest denominations, down 2.6%.
Other denominations reporting declines include the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Episcopal Church as well as the more conservative Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.