Many other Protestant denominations preceded the Anglicans in such action.

Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of the Protestant Reformation due to his teaching on salvation and divine grace.

Many Mainline Protestant churches are open and affirming to gay and lesbian couples.

Many Protestant Christians claim that the Ten Commandments prohibit abortion under the heading of " Do not murder ".

Many mainline Protestant churches offer communicants gluten-free alternatives to wheaten bread, usually in the form of a rice-based cracker or gluten-free bread.

Many Protestant churches allow clergy and communicants to take mustum instead of wine.

Many Protestant churches are now organized by either congregational or presbyterian church polities, both descended from the writings of John Calvin, a Protestant reformer working and writing independently following the break with the Roman Catholic Church precipitated by The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther.

Many communities also existed in Mexican Texas until the revolution there, when they sided with Catholic Mexico against Protestant pro-U. S. elements.

" Many other Ramist rhetorics followed in the next half-century, and by the 17th century, their approach became the primary method of teaching rhetoric in Protestant and especially Puritan circles.

Many Protestant Christian groups hold that only believers which believe in certain fundamental doctrines know the true pathway to salvation.

Many were pietistic Protestant reformers who called for public schools to teach moral values and proposed prohibition to end the liquor problem.

Many local nobles converted to Protestantism during the Protestant Reformation, but the region was converted back to Roman Catholicism during the Counter-Reformation.

Many Protestant denominations reject the idea that the clergy are a separate category of people, but rather stress the priesthood of all believers.

Many other Protestant communities hold special services on this day as well.

Many Roman Catholics ( and members of the Protestant denominations as well ) will eat fish and vegetables on Good Friday.

Many Protestant traditions do not share the belief in the Real Presence but otherwise are varied ; for example, they may believe that in the bread and wine, Christ is present only spiritually, not in the sense of a change in substance ( Methodism ) or that the bread and wine of communion are a merely symbolic reminder ( Baptist faith ).

Many retaliatory attacks on Catholics were claimed using the covername " Protestant Action Force " ( PAF ).

Many Protestant Christians were burnt at the stake or otherwise killed in the reign of Queen Mary I of England, including Thomas Cranmer and two bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, the Oxford Martyrs.

Many Huguenots emigrated to Protestant countries ; others reconverted to Catholicism for survival, and the remainder were concentrated in a small number of cities where they formed a majority.

" " Many Protestant houses were burned, invoking the traditional purification by fire of all heretics.

Many mainline Protestant Churches include corporate confession in regular worship.

Many in Germany reacted negatively to the persecution of the Huguenots, disabusing the Protestant princes of the idea that Louis XIV was their ally against the intolerant practices of the Catholic Habsburgs.

Many Congregational churches claim their descent from a family of Protestant denominations formed on a theory of union published by the theologian Robert Browne in 1592.

Many of those congregations became part of the Christian churches and churches of Christ.

Many congregations, especially larger ones, also rely on a:

Many UU congregations have study groups that examine the traditions and spiritual practices of Neopaganism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Pantheism, and other faiths.

Many UU congregations light a chalice at the beginning of worship services.

Many congregations are heavily involved in projects and efforts aimed at supporting environmental causes and sustainability.

Many larger United Methodist congregations have incorporated more contemporary styles of music and audio-visual technology into some of their worship services, though these churches generally also offer more traditional services.

Many congregations require pre-bar mitzvah children to attend a minimum number of Shabbat prayer services at the synagogue, study at a Hebrew School, take on a charity or community service project, and maintain membership in good standing with the synagogue.

Many early settlers were Huguenots or Swiss or German Mennonites and several church congregations of various faiths formed during the 1760s.

Many also retain international links with other congregations around the world.

Many actions of the congregations were of a definite political content.

( Many immigrants to America that agreed with the union movement formed German Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed congregations, later to be gathered as the Evangelical Synod of North America, which is now a part of the United Church of Christ.

Many Mennonite congregations sing a longer and more embellished setting of this text known as " Dedication Anthem " by Samuel Stanley.

Many Reform congregations will often conclude with either Sim Shalom or Shalom Rav.

Many local congregations in the South, however, remained integrated while attempting to comply with local segregation laws.

Many of the former UCC congregations banded together as the new Congregational Christian Churches in Canada.

Many of the pastors and congregations brought with them a tolerance towards forming joint congregations with the Reformed, similar to the Union Churches they left behind in Germany.

Many of these charismatic / renewal congregations are ending up in the Alliance of Renewal Churches.

Many of those congregations are located outside major metropolitan areas, in small towns and rural communities.

Many of those congregations became part of the Christian churches and churches of Christ.

Many congregations withdrew from the missionary society as a result.

Many of its congregations choose to practice open communion.

Many congregations still use it.

Many small congregations were planted and organized under the common name adopted in 1907, Church of God.