Continuing church

[9] In the US, the ordination of women beginning in the 1970s played a major part in the formation of a number of Continuing Churches, as did Fundamentalist and Evangelical convictions.

And there are many remnants of the former Congregationalist denominations which now comprise the United Church of Christ merger, such as the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference (1948).

The North American Baptist landscape is replete with organizations that originate from a refusal to join a larger body.

Some continuing churches have been embroiled in legal disputes with parent bodies over property and/or the right to use the original denominational name.

For example, the Presbyterian Church in America resolved to maintain the "historic doctrinal position of the Reformed faith as expressed in the Westminster Standards.