US Mainline Protestantism has the same problem, except their partnership is with the left. When you dig into the statistics on Mainline decline, the segments of the mainline denominations that are most politically engaged (on the left) have the worst attrition rates
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For example, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, which is theologically conservative, but deliberately apolitical, has much more stable membership than the rapidly shrinking Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which is quite progressive, both theologically and politically
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