Alternately, the “established” churches in Western European countries may have a status that in theory is the antithesis of American denominational fragmentation—and yet their churches are often empty on Sunday mornings, and popular culture finds them irrelevant, if not something to be mocked or resisted. My sense is that we need our ecclesiological imaginations reclaimed and reignited by a more biblical, theological, and pastoral vision of the Church: the community of nurture, accountability, and