A Faith's Dwindling Following PDF Print E-mail
Written by Michael R. Walker   
Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:52
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George Will had a nice piece in the Washington Post today about mainline denominations, the Episcopal Church's experience in particular: "A Faith's Dwindling Following."  I take that back.  It wasn't 'nice.'  But it was honest.  The last paragraph captures the bottom line quite well:

"The Episcopal Church once was America's upper crust at prayer. Today it is 'progressive' politics cloaked -- very thinly -- in piety. Episcopalians' discontents tell a cautionary tale for political as well as religious associations. As the church's doctrines have become more elastic, the church has contracted. It celebrates an 'inclusiveness' that includes fewer and fewer members."
 

The Notebook

"What we ought chiefly to seek in the prophets"
"Comfort, O comfort my people," says your God. (Isaiah 40:1)

"From this passage we learn what we ought chiefly to seek in the prophets, namely, to encourage the hopes of godly persons by exhibiting the sweetness of divine grace, that they may not faint under the weight of afflictions, but may boldly persevere in calling on God."  - John Calvin