Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but at the very least, it means that I do not think Christianity began with the Reformation.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

I am - and have always been - a Methodist.