![Author James Carroll urges religions to give up polemical battles and focus on the world's survival during a lecture in Morristown. SHARON SHERIDAN PHOTO Author James Carroll](https://dioceseofnewark.org/sites/default/files/styles/node_hero_image/public/images/IMG_6608-480x327.jpg?itok=x9pQiBgg)
May 25, 2012
By:
Sharon Sheridan / Morristown Green
The church is in the midst of a new reformation, and the stakes couldn’t be higher, a prominent progressive speaker told a Morristown audience.
“Religion must stop being what it has been until now, which has been an essential source of intolerance, contempt for the other and even mad apocalyptic violence,” James Carroll said recently at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. “Survival of religions is not the issue. Neither therefore is survival of the church.”
What matters, he said, is survival of humankind.