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Something is brewing among American Protestants, and it has a decidedly hoppy flavor.<\/span><\/span>
For much of the last century in the United States, Protestant Christianity\u2019s relationship with beer was cold or even hostile at times.\u00a0Protestant organizations such as the Woman\u2019s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League led the campaign to make alcohol illegal.<\/span><\/span>
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Even after Prohibition ended, many evangelicals defined themselves by their abstention from alcohol, called \u201cthe beloved enemy\u201d by televangelist Jack Van Impe. Drinking was, and in many cases still is, outlawed on Christian college campuses and among leadership of many churches and denominations. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But in recent years, change has been fermenting. Taverns and beer halls, once dismissed as the domain of the \u201cworldly\u201d in need of reform, are today the meeting places for churches<\/span><\/span>
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Consider the following:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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