churches

Yes, you're correct in that the CofI is slightly bigger than the Presbyterian churches.

Some churches are converting to Chrislam where they rewrite the Bible to be compatible with Islam.

Touching on your point further, Protestant churches actually fare pretty well with some of these cultural issues that force change.

Generally churches have a minimum set of beliefs to be accepted as an official member.

Still, it doesn't surprise me that it (only?) dates to the 1930s, nor that there would still be churches using it.

However, most churches welcome people who don't believe to be part of the community.

It took the evangelical churches until the early 20th century to unify in Germany.

Many old Reformed churches have short institutional memories but nonetheless cling to assumed traditions.

You have churches and then secular churches when the real solution (whatever it may be) should be a less dogmatic form of outreach that grabs at people from all walks of life and engages them.

Unlike the different evangelical churches they're not likely to unify any time soon.

They killed priest on a large scale, destroyed churches and outlawed religious practices.

My biggest gripe with the two big Christian churches in particular (the Catholic church of Germany and the federation of various Lutheran and other evangelical churches) is with the church-operated hospitals, kindergartens, schools and so on.

The churches themselves decide if and how much to "tax", and they pay the state for the collection service.

For those unaware of the context, there's recently been a huge growth on fundamentalist "christian" religious churches in Brazil.

I could be interpreted to have said "those christians with segregative values", of which there are many communities, priests/pastors and churches.

"churches") have historically been the source of community in Western culture, then suggests that secular organizations could compete with them.

Churches reject these values and so have better natural survival rates.