tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9555343.post111880105017294182..comments2023-08-28T03:21:40.351-07:00Comments on To all the world...: A New Exodus? Americans are Exiting Liberal ChurchesRobert S. Mundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377574491812912442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9555343.post-1118949902046927382005-06-16T12:25:00.000-07:002005-06-16T12:25:00.000-07:00I'm quickly putting this book on my summer reading...I'm quickly putting this book on my summer reading list. Several parishioners I have spoken with say that this is one of the most candid, to the point, books about the present situation with people "escaping" liberal churches. Thanks for the post.Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02394981580432972411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9555343.post-1118854490635295322005-06-15T09:54:00.000-07:002005-06-15T09:54:00.000-07:00I seldom recommend a book without having read it. ...I seldom recommend a book without having read it. However, I can say without qualification that Shiflett is one of the best writers around. He's right up there with any of the first-rate analysts today.<BR/><BR/>Needless to say, I will be ordering this book today. Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out a way to stay in the pew besides putting Crazy Glue on my gluteus maximus and cotton in my ears. <BR/><BR/>Here's my decision so far: I'm in the pew until the Episcopal Church decides to follow those other mean-spirited, holier-than-thou Pharisees who so loudly and publicly dis-invested themselves of anything to do with Israel. Should that happen, I will take it as a *sign* to be gone...<BR/><BR/>When will American protestants learn to play both sides against the middle? I don't mean that in a disparaging way, I mean it to point to the way Catholicism does things. Even as it praised socialism, the Roman church managed to keep a hand in with free-market capitalism (see the Acton Institute).<BR/><BR/>The only place the church never managed to gain the ascendancy was in Haiti. Instead of co-opting the local deities, they co-opted the Church. And we can see where that got Haiti. One has only to compare and contrast the Dominican Republic with Haiti to make oneself believe in the devil. No human hand could have been <I>that</I> perverse.Dymphnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11332644582520636279noreply@blogger.com