Bottom Line Beliefs : Twelve Doctrines All Christians Hold in Common (Sort Of)

Wherever you worship on Sunday morning, the odds are you occupy a pew with members of your own congregation who disagree with you about subjects varying from the Virgin Birth to the sacraments to whether the Bible is the literal or the inspired, poetic word of God. In one's own house of faith, people are seldom of a single mind.

Michael Brown is the new voice at one of America's oldest existing local congregations, Marble Collegiate Church of New York City (established 1628). In 2009, Brown became only the third Senior Minister at that church in the past seventy-seven years. Following Norman Vincent Peale (The Power Of Positive Thinking) and Arthur Caliandro (Simple Faith on the Hallmark Channel), he maintains a commitment to making theological truths plain and accessible to a national audience. Before his move to Marble Church, Dr. Brown was the pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.