However my vocational life has been spent within three non-denominational communities, which makes me both an insider and outsider.
They first called for Willowbank Primary, a local non-denominational community school where 98% of the pupils are Muslim, to become Islamic.
The service was dreamed up by members of The Kitchen, an alternative, non-denominational Jewish community in San Francisco and includes items that are curated by a variety of experts -- from San Francisco tastemakers to Facebook's former director of market development, Randi Zuckerberg, who is a member of the Hello Mazel team. .
"In the last 30 years, you've had a lot of breaking down of denominational lines within the evangelical community," said William Martin, a sociologist at Rice University who has specialized in evangelical Christianity.
But Limmud has become British Jewry's proudly celebrated contribution to modern post-denominational Judaism, emulated in Jewish communities around the world.Another growth area of Jewish learning is the spread of Jewish studies programmes in universities, particularly in America.
These two theodicies can be found in the denominational segregation within the religious community.
Mr Wahl thinks the community, less split along denominational lines than elsewhere, is there to stay.Contrast Israel's gravitational pull on French and British Jewry with its relationship to Germany and Russia.
The large ones, from the centrist mainstream Jewish community -- the Reform and Conservative denominational bodies, the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, even the Anti-Defamation League -- voted to include J Street.
The Federation system and its "beneficiaries" were responsible for the secular welfare of local and global Jewish communities, and congregations and related denominational structures tended to the religious and educational needs of Jewish communities.
Because on one side of the river was the white community and the other side was the black community, and I realized that the denominational borders were less strong than the river that divided the city in these two parts.
Indeed, one voter today, Harold Noyes, pastor of the non-denominational "Bible believing" Christian Community Church in Athens, Ga., voted for Alan Keyes and complained, "McCain has been kind of whining a lot lately".
