Sentences with phrase «surprised mainline denominations»

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It was a surprise for me that, when I left a liberal - progressive mainline denomination and became Orthodox, my scope of ministry in the church became much larger.

These differences were generally insignificant among mainline denominations, but researchers were surprised by the relative strength revealed by the Southern Baptist statistics.

The bit of revisionist history (summarized by Scott McLemee) concerning the decline of mainline denominations in the U.S. that David Hollinger offers will, I suspect, not be overly surprising to those of us who have actually experienced the seemingly chronic inability of many mainline Protestant....