This doesn’t necessarily mean Christians are joining mainline congregations — the survey measures self-identification, not church affiliation. It is, nevertheless, a striking turnabout after years when mainline Protestantism was considered moribund and evangelical Christianity full of dynamism.

In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.

I will not dignify that comment with a response.

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