Martin Thielen is senior pastor at Brentwood United Methodist Church in Brentwood, Tennessee. His most recent book is What's the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian? A Guide to What Matters Most (Westminster John Knox). His website is GettingReadyforSunday.com.
I used to receive postcards from conservative churches
advertising their upcoming sermon series. Why, I asked myself, don't mainline
churches advertise like this? That question led
to an experiment.
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