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.
Those responsible for our denomination's "elasticity" excuse our falling numbers by pointing out that all mainline protestant denominations are shrinking these days. True enough, but what they don't point out this interesting tidbit: all those shrinking mainline protestant denominations have, in one form or another, embraced the same Lefty theocratic correctness of The Episcopal Church (tm). Those which have not, like the Roman Catholics and the Evangelicals, are not shrinking as fast - or are growing. So those leaving The Episcopal Church are not necessarily leaving religious faith - but they are leaving the "faith" embraced by today's Episcopal Church (tm).
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