Mainline denominations losing impact on nation is an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today (Hat Tip to Reformed Angler).
The Empty Tomb study showed that liberal Protestant denominations in 1968, defined as those belonging to the National Council of Churches, had 26.5 million members, or about 13.2 percent of the country's population. By 2003, that had shrunk to 6.8 percent while the U.S. population grew 45 percent during the same period.
The article gives some good history of what has been happening to the mainliners and their prospects for the future.
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