With an unusual number of mainline clergy running for Congress as Dems, mainline Protestants — long bitter rivals of evangelicals, who split from them around a century ago — are poised to (maybe) have their most impactful political moment in a generation. https://religionnews.com/2026/11/01/mainliners-are-having-a-moment-can-they-move-from-protest-to-political-power/