I appreciate the kind words, narses.
Are the national cathedral folks and boston university examples of mainstream Protestantism?
FWIW, there are only denominations. There is no such thing as ‘protestantism’. There’s no Office of Protestantism, Church of Protestantism. We talk about denominations.
The national cathedral presentation is representative of episcopalianism. Boston University is representative of northeastern US United Methodism, since each of Methodism’s dioceses in independently operated by their own bishops with their being no over-bishop to whom they report.
Is that presentation typical of the Assembly of God or of the Southern Baptists or even of conservative Methodism? No, it isn’t.
“There’s no Office of Protestantism, Church of Protestantism. We talk about denominations.”
And each one their own final arbiter of what the Word says.
Bingo. The essential issue.