Happily, I've been thinking about mainline Protestants again lately.
When I started studying religion as a political scientist — and then again when I began dabbling in opinion journalism — many people advised me to become an expert on Catholics and evangelicals. Mainline Protestants, I was told, just weren't interesting or important anymore.
I have always thought that was wrong, and have been pleased to include mainline Protestants in my published writing.
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