As many of you know already, Trinity Church in Chicago, the church of Dr. Wright and Barak Obama, is affiliated with the United Church of Christ (UCC).
The UCC is one of the Protestant "Mainline" churches--a name which refers to their theology and their lineage, not their popularity. Although I'm not religious, I was raised in a small UCC congregation and I still have deep familial ties to the wider church. It's a group of folks, by and large, who subscribe to the "know them by their works" school of faith.
What does that mean?