`  == ``Evangelical`` Protestant == Someone seems to take umbrage at the word ``evangelical.`` This is historically the proper term for non-episcopal Protestant churches in the English speaking world. The other major Protestant denominations in  Canada (though there are internal issues in Anglicanism as to the term ``Protestant`` which are no business of an article on the United Church) are the Anglican and Lutheran Churches, both of which are espicopal in ecclesiastical polity. Lately the term ``evangelical`` has been co-opted by fundamentalists but that is no reason for the United Church and its historians to abandon a historically perfectly neutral and non-normative term describing Presbyterianism, Methodism, Congregationalism and the Baptists, and thence the United Church.   `