Sentences with phrase «old line protestants»

Yet these young social liberals are not attending the dozens of theologically liberal old line Protestant churches in DC whose beautiful sanctuaries are typically half or more empty with disproportionately old congregants on Sunday morning.

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Within oldline Protestantism there are many exceptions, but that is the stereotype because it is so persistently reinforced by what old - line Protestants, especially the more visible and vocal of them, say and do.

«The old lines between Catholics and Protestants which were dominant in our politics as recently as the 1960 election have been replaced by new lines of division, not between denominations but within them.

For Protestants, though, seminary need not be about ministry; at some of the more - established old line institutions in the U.S., for example, only a minority of students actually enter active ministry after graduating.

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

But old - line Protestants in the same congregation may not agree about who is considered a neighbor, or what it means to love your neighbor.

The implicit old - line mark of a work of God is birth into a white middle - class Protestant family.

The issue of full acceptance of homosexuals tore the old - line Protestant churches in North America apart.

Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her.