I'm a Christian. But last week my cantankerous car was finely fixed by a Muslim mechanic. I ate food prepared by Hindu hands. A Zoroastrian solved my software problem and a Jew persuaded me to be on a citizens' committee to build a better Durham.

Welcome to multi-religious America.

I'm not sure that we mainline Protestant types know how to live in such a world. After all, our major project, well into this century, was to make a “Christian America," to concoct a country so uniformly Christian that we would never encounter anyone who was unable to confess with, Matthew 16, “You are the Christ, the Son of God."

Have you noticed? Even in “God We Trust” America, Christians are increasingly feeling like a minority in the very culture we thought we had made Christian. Although 82 percent of American…