Hi Bill
(My Dad's name was Bill too)
I do understand the distance thing. I imagine most of us here will. I travel about 40 minutes to Church on the interstate, so it's less than 40 miles but not much less. I know at least one person that lives so far they have to go Saturday night and stay overnight with someone in order to go on Sunday. There are many I know who would attend an Orthodox Church except there simply isn't one within 100+ miles.
I grew up mostly in Northwest Louisiana, and I'm pretty familiar with the mix of churches you describe. And I've been to just about all the ones you mention, and been members of a good many.
My Church is Greek Orthodox. There is also an Antiochian near me. There are several kinds of Orthodox Churches that are "Eastern Orthodox" and all in communion with each other (or pretty much so). OCA is Orthodox Church in America, which is often closely related with ROCOR (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia). As Gurney mentioned, Serbian Orthodox. There are maybe another half-dozen ethnic Orthodox Churches found in America. I won't try to list them all since I get it wrong sometimes, or may miss some. They all teach the same thing, believe the same thing, share communion. They may sound/look a little different from one Church to another, people may do their venerations a little differently - really it's only the superficial style that varies much. It's the same faith.
Some Churches do have "Orthodox" in the title, and they are not, as I've seen with a few other kinds of churches too. And some Orthodox are not in communion, having split off early. Coptic/Ethiopian/Tewahedo Orthodox (and a few others) have some differences in how they view Christ.
Not sure if you really wanted to know all that.
Depending on what your concerns are with the Catholic Church and your other beliefs, among the ones you listed, I would think that Orthodox and Lutheran are the ones most likely to be acceptable to you. Possibly Episcopal, depending on what kind of Episcopal and again - what your concerns and beliefs are.
Baptist and Pentecostal are what I am most familiar with from my past, and those are going to be VERY different from Catholic.
Thank you all for replying. One of the practical limitations for me in my choice of denominations is that I live in a mostly rural area of the south -- central Arkansas. I know that there is one "Greek Orthodox" Church in Little Rock, which is about 40 miles away. Is "Greek Orthodox" your church? My town has a pop. less than 5,000 and is mostly Baptist (several different versions: First, Second, Primitive, Missionary, Faith, Emmanuel, and probably some I can't think of. You just take one of those words and put it in front of 'Baptist Church', and you've got it. Let's see: we have a Nazarene and a Pentecostal right next door to one another (don't know what they are except I think they speak in tongues). We have a Church of Christ and a Methodist. Our family drove (wife still does) about 10+ miles each way to the Roman Catholic Church in Conway (pop. approx. 50,000), and they have about the same assortment plus Assembly of God, an Episcopal church, and I'm pretty sure Presbyterian and Lutheran. ... But no Greek Orthodox, and I don't know what other churches are considered "Eastern" Orthodox. Availability (and distance) will undoubtedly be big factors in my choice; I know that probably sounds harsh and withholding from the Lord, but when I am already a bit uncertain and reluctant about switching, long-distances won't make it any easier.