Episcopalianism: Will Liberal Christianity Survive?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/opinion/sunday/douthat-can-liberal-christianity-be-saved.html?_r=1




Can Liberal
Christianity Be Saved? 


By ROSS DOUTHAT 






IN 1998, John Shelby Spong, then the reliably
controversial Episcopal bishop of Newark, published a book entitled “Why
Christianity Must Change or Die.” Spong was a uniquely radical figure — during
his career, he dismissed almost