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Music Learn more at PMI.com slash progress. Hello and welcome back to the Americano show, where we talk about power, politics and prejudices in American life.

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Today we are going to be talking about the state of mainline proscenism in America.

And that's because we have an excellent piece in the latest Spectator World Edition.

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The headline is Losing Faith,

how progressivism is snuffing out mainline Christianity in America.

I'm joined now by the author, Christopher Mondix,

who is a legal affairs writer based in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, I should say, sorry. Christopher,

first of all, for viewers that might not know, we have quite a few British people who are

what do Americans mean when they talk about the mainline denominations in America?

Oh, that's a really good question. They're sort of the traditional Protestant churches that were

here at the very beginning of the country's history, that hew to a theology that traces

back to the Reformation. And they are composed of a handful of denominations, Lutherans, Episcopalians,

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