In which our regular writers toss around
subjects a little more volatile than usual.
The current state of our evangelical
Christian churches is not the easiest thing to encapsulate in a few sentences.
While each of today’s Protestant denominations originally sprang from a set of
shared doctrinal convictions and associated practices, few could ever have been
called monolithic, and evangelicals are even less so. Some groups bear the same
name but believe and do things very differently indeed.
Tom: My experience with folks from the denominations is primarily
online, but our own Immanuel Can has been out church-shopping of late, and may
have a better view from the trenches ... er, pews. Does the average modern evangelical church building still have pews, IC?