The Nov. 17 CBS Evening News “Eye on America” report focused on what is considered a rising trend of Christians now attending nondenominational churches. Quoting research from the General Social Survey, the report mentioned that in 1972, “fewer than 3% of Americans identified as nondenominational Christians.” Today, close to 40 million people identify as such. Stories like this always pique my interest due to my upbringing in a traditional Southern Black Baptist church in Athens, Georgia, during the 1970s and ’80s. As a child, I often wondered what the difference was between being a Baptist or a Methodist, two of the predominant African American denominations in the community where I grew up. My 10-year-old self kept asking, since we all profess to believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and S

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