Loading ...The mainline Presbyterian Church had 4.16 million followers in the mid-1960s. Today, it has half that amount — 2.08 million adherents.
Peter Smith of the Louisville Courier-Journal chronicles the collapse of one of the nation’s largest Protestant denominations.
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July 11th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
I suppose that “collapse” is an appropriate word if membership size is the only important criterion, but The Good Lord surely has a different scale for measuring success (and faithfulness).