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