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Hello and welcome back to the Americano show, where we talk about power, politics and prejudices in American life. Every week we will talk to at least one or two or

possibly three or four American experts, international experts about American affairs.

And you can also catch us on Spectator TV on YouTube as often as you like. Please keep listening and watching.

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

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

Subscribe you must at all costs. 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, the viewers that might not know, we have quite a few British people

who are you. What do Americans mean when they talk about the mainline denominations in America?

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