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Article: Cutting-edge congregations; Sometimes the need for community is strong enough to overcome religious doctrine and bring people from different faiths together into merged churches.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 29, 1999
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1/3 Two churches at opposite ends of Minnesota are on the cutting edge of American mainstream Protestantism. They're hybrids: congregations that come from more than one Protestant denomination, loyal to all founders, but clearly congregations with strong local ties and their own identities.
Protestant congregational mergers are happening around the country, but in Minnesota the process has been going on quietly for decades.
St. Paul's Church, a sensible white clapboard church at the corner of Freemont and William streets in Lewiston, has been a merged congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the United Church of Christ ...