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FULL TITLE: Churches merge, close: 'We no longer live in Christendom. We really have to accept that it's a thing of the past' For a decade and more, Govans Presbyterian Church and Brown Memorial Woodbrook Presbyterian Church have labored in the manner of many mainline Protestant congregations: Working ever harder to provide spiritual resources for dwindling number of congregants. Govans, on York Road in North Baltimore, has been hosting its Sunday night dinners for the poor and helping lead GEDCO, the social service organization it co-founded in 1984. Brown Memorial Woodbrook, about two miles from Govans on North Charles Street,...