[11th Earl of Mar]

Methodist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Brethren, Presbyterian, Mennonite....

Aren't these the same dying denominations we keep reading about?

Mabye there is a reason these denominations are in the shape they are in.

[Moonmad27]

Please note they asked the Evangelical Lutheran Church which is liberal. If they'd asked my Missouri Synod, the more traditional part of the Lutheran church, the answer might have been quite different - in which case the writer probably woudln't have quoted it in his article.