For months leading up to last week's event, people in the denomination talked about how any big move toward accepting gay marriage would cause a split in the denomination and escalate the decline in membership.
For as long as I can remember, I have heard Roman Catholics and Protestants of many denominations talk about what they are giving up for Lent.
The kitchen was run by a crew of regulars, who almost every week were joined by a new person, a dilettante: a high-school kid doing mandated community service, a visitor from some other branch of the church's denomination who wanted to talk about Jesus, or, often, someone like me, who'd heard about the soup kitchen and was looking to fill some kind of a hole in her life.
In trying to achieve their membership goal, the Presbyterians may benefit from ongoing talks between their denomination and the 30,000-member Korean Presbyterian Church in America.
This is particularly dangerous when talking about a denomination that has a great deal of flexibility at its core, as indicated (but not mentioned in Douthat's column) by the recent news out of The General Convention of the Episcopal Church that ministers have discretion over whether or not they choose to bless same sex unions.
In classes and seminars, Christians of several denominations are being trained in how to talk about the themes.
Cage delivered the local Boy Scout news, played the piano (mostly Grieg) and invited clergy of various denominations to give inspirational talks.
I know it's difficult when you start talking about denominations and different beliefs, but I think there is a way for us to have a non-denominational opening prayer when the opportunity is available to let people know there is a God.
OF AMPLIFICATION about talk story (Feb. 26, 1955) on high-denomination currency.
The Dutch Reformed minister probably won't talk about it either on his pastoral call, though his denomination, which is the official Afrikaner church, claims scriptural justification for the system.
