Religion: Reunion for Protestants?

As the congregation made its way out of San Francisco's Episcopal Grace Cathedral, the editor of the Christian Century remarked to a friend: "You could go to church for a decade—maybe for this century—and not see a service as unique and as important as this one."

The packed service they had just attended was all that Editor Harold Fey said it was: two leading churchmen had proposed seriously that U.S. Protestants begin at once to unite in a single church. Church unity is something both clergymen and laymen have been talking about for years,...

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