Protestantism

Rod Dreher notes the appointment of Katherine Ragsdale as dean of the Episcopal Divinity School:
“This woman is evil. She is an evil person who preaches evil, and is a conscious agent of the culture of death. She is the enemy. We are, of course, to love our enemies, but that doesn’t make her any less the enemy.”

USA Today- “Breakaway Episcopalians lose bid to keep building”

The BibleBeltBlogger reports

On Faith’s varied panelists respond to the question “Should a layperson read sacred texts alone, without the help of clergy or community? How do you read and study sacred texts?”

An interesting story in The Economist

Christianity Today looks at Christianity and Fundamentalism in this excerpt from Philip Jenkins’ new book The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South

The latest Barna Survey finds “Major Christian Leaders Are Widely Unknown, Even Among Christians”

Albert Mohler surmises that “The Episcopal Church is in Big Trouble”

At Mere Comments, David Gustafson tells us “What Katharine Jefferts Schori Does Not Say”

Ron Dreher observes,
“Ten years from now, they’ll be proposing “Groucho, Chico and Harpo” with a straight face, so as not to marginalize the Slapstick-American community.”