More about the D Word

Maybe another reason why denominations have fallen into disfavor is the mistaken notion that they stand for narrow, exclusivist provincialism, a bad thing in today's interfaith world. Oh yeah, there's plenty of that. But most of the so called mainline churches were never like that. I grew up a Methodist, never heard a preacher say we had the only right answers, and we were one of the first to merge with other groups and become the United Methodist Church.