@Excalibur – It’s interesting that almost all famous religious leaders come from mainstream religious organizations and not non-denominational churches. Does this tell us something about non-denominational churches?
Here are some examples I used in the other thread:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer (German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was also a participant in the German Resistance movement against Hitler)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi (political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement and a pioneer of resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King (an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu (a South African cleric and activist who was an opponent of apartheid and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama (who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Fuehrer (a German pastor who helped to organize the Peace Prayers as part of a joint protest action of Protestant youth organizations in the GDR since September 1982. He was also one of the leading figures and organizers of the 1989 Monday demonstrations in East Germany which finally led to the German reunification and the end of the GDR in 1990)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lerner_(rabbi) (who founded the Network of Spiritual Progressives and who promotes religious pluralism and progressive or liberal approaches to political problems)