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Gary Dorrien has some thoughts on why Liberal Protestantism may seem not to be thriving, and yet be doing some very important things less visibly. Here’s the conclusion: I regret that religious progressives like me have reached so few people beyond the small worlds of the academy, church and community organizing in which we live. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[6527,6530,6535,6877,9668,9669,10169],"class_list":["post-16396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-liberal","tag-liberal-christianity","tag-liberals","tag-mainline","tag-protestant","tag-protestantism","tag-religion"],"yoast_head":"\n
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