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I also wrote to the site you linked to ask them to list my church as UCC. They have us listed as "Congregational", which is incorrect. Thanks for the link!

But at least your church is listed correctly now :)

the NCCC and the NACCC or some two things like that, the conservative kind and the progressive kind.

My church is UCC. Period. And should be so listed on that website. 

I went to seminary with some NACCC types. The major difference between us was--we worship God; they worship "the Congregational Way." I can't do it right--they get all weepy and misty-eyed when they say "Congregational Way". And then they bitch about how the E&R took over their churches and seminaries. 

:puke:

I thought you were criticizing the beliefnet test (another link upthread) for offering "Congregational" instead of "UCC" - but I see now you are talking about a different link to a church directory.

I was looking at a different post, and thinking that was the one to which you were referring.

Is the NACCC the conservative annoying branch? I was a member of a Congregational church for a while that was affiliated with the liberal one, and I can never keep the two straight, and I don't feel like googling right now. I'm lazy. :P

I love the liberal Congregational tradition and churches. But then, even though every other church I've been involved with has been UCC, they were all Congregational before joining the UCC, so Congregationalism is truly in my blood, since that's where I've been since I've been, like, 5.

focused on polity. As I say, they get all weepy and emotional when talking about that good ol' Congregational Way. And they enjoyed insulting those of us with E&R roots. We stole their churches :eyes:

My roots are in the German E side (my ancestors came here to avoid conscription in the Franco-Prussian War, and because they were on the losing side in the Prussian revolution of 1848). I went to Andover Newton to learn the "other" side. I learned okay!