Huh. I guess I always assumed there was some central controlling Board of Directors for Baptist churches, or Presbyterian, or whatever. This does go a long way to explaining how my friend's Methodist church looks, walks, and quacks like a Baptist church without being Baptist, I guess.
My own church is oddly enough affiliated with both the UCC and the CCCC
so both liberal and conservative? From the WP article, congregationalists were also called independents, so there seems to be some inherent apparent contradictions.
thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes! now, pray for me (sacrifice a goat, dance naked, whatever) as I gird my loins to go to the DMV to renew my license.
I just skipped three hundred posts of what I presume to be
Smallville
S1 discussion (er?) to post this for Jilli:
The Endless as dolls
I have the official stuffed Death, Daniel, and Morpheus (oh, and Goldie). Still on the lookout for Delirium, but I doubt I'll ever find her.
pray for me (sacrifice a goat, dance naked, whatever) as I gird my loins to go to the DMV to renew my license.
Vortex - when we met you didn't look 65+ or anywhere near... why do you have to renew in person?
In utterly random news, I am listening to the soundtrack to 1776, a musical I worked crew for umpteen years ago. My brain is in a happy place.
Huh. I guess I always assumed there was some central controlling Board of Directors for Baptist churches, or Presbyterian, or whatever. This does go a long way to explaining how my friend's Methodist church looks, walks, and quacks like a Baptist church without being Baptist, I guess.
Presbyterian and Methodist churches are not (typically, as far as I know) congregationally goverened. The Presbyterians have a Presbetery as a governing body, and the Methodists have Bishops.
There are plenty of non-denominational churches, and their governmental form can vary, but will sometimes be somewhat congregational (it sort of depends how the church got its start).
Churches that belong to a denomination or conference of some sort generally agree in principal with that body, and the association is often voluntary, so they remain affilated and will agree with denominational decisions, but they will also sometimes leave the denominations, or ignore them.
American Protestantism is very American.
In utterly random news, I am listening to the soundtrack to 1776, a musical I worked crew for umpteen years ago. My brain is in a happy place.
EM's family was close with the actor that played Ben Franklin in the movie version. I think he was in the stage version too.
::checks IMDB::
Howard Da Silva.
pray for me (sacrifice a goat, dance naked, whatever)
I will sacrifice a naked dancing goat. The DMV makes me cry.
I have now gotten sucked in to reading Wikipedia about religion, and it appears my parents' early exposure of me to Unitarianism really stuck a lot more than I'd thought.
