Over the last 10 years, the Episcopal Church has consistently taken one wrong turn after another, abandoning its base and its former religion for a new, modern religion.  They look silly doing so and their dwindling ranks tell the ultimate story.  Sadly, it is the story of religious leaders failing to provide the timeless lessons because they are too busy huffing and puffing to keep up with the latest and greatest causes.

Craig Bernthal documents the decline at Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers:

"[Presiding Bishop, Katharine] Schori’s 2008 Easter message reveals that ecology is her constant agenda.  This time, the perfunctory bow to the resurrection comes up front, but only as a lead-in to another ecological message: that we can’t love God if we don’t love the creation he has made. Now this is something no Christian could disagree with, and it deserves thought. This is Schori’s most vivid sentence: “When atmospheric warming, due in part to the methane output of the millions of cows we raise each year to produce hamburger, begins to slowly drown the island homes of our neighbors in the South Pacific, are we truly sharing good news?” Partly in response to this eco-crime, she wants to change the rite of baptism: “We base much of our approach to loving God and our neighbors in this world on our baptismal covenant. Yet our latest prayer book was written just a bit too early to include caring for creation among those explicit baptismal promises.” Schori seems to have plans to revise The Book of Common Prayer to accommodate green politics."

Thanks, Marlowe.