Sunday Division Has a New Equation | LA Times

Sunday Division Has a New Equation
Regular churchgoers tend to lean Republican, while the more secular vote Democratic. But the Iraq war is making some of the faithful uneasy.

By Ronald Brownstein and Faye Fiore, Times Staff Writers

EDINA, Minn. — At 9:30 last Sunday morning, the organ sounded and the congregation rose from the pews in the soaring, sun-splashed sanctuary of Colonial Church, which sits just outside the center of town here.

Some in their Sunday best, others in jeans, they rustled to their feet and joined together in a 285-year-old hymn, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past."

At the same moment about two miles away, men and women in shorts and jogging shoes, their hair rumpled, were filling the fat leather chairs at the Caribou Coffee shop in Edina's quaint downtown.

They settled in with complicated lattes and the morning newspaper. An arts festival beckoned outside and as the smell of kettle corn filled the air, the Lord seemed about the last topic on their minds.

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