“But after the analysis of decline, it doesn’t say anything different than Francis Schaeffer did several decades earlier”
Well, I’m sorry to steal your thunder. I found it a fabulous article.
“Serious, believing Presbyterians, for example, now typically feel that they have more in common with serious, believing Catholics and evangelicals—with serious, believing Jews, for that matter—than they do, vertically, with the unserious, unorthodox members of their own denomination.”
Is the money quote.
Indeed it is - and it's true of my own feelings on the matter.