This could increase tensions in the American church over the next few years.

This is "a text which can be heard in any American church," the center notes.

Before this most American church members had been single and living celibately.

One more important result of the trip was the image the American church has of itself.

The program began in 2005 with 20 American churches that bought about 5,000 palms.

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

"Now, you're getting a more conservative view of the American church, a different kind of information."

The American church, meanwhile, has ordained more than 1,200 women as priests since 1976.

"What has the American church to do with the Holocaust?"