“Bless this building,” prayed Rev. Tracey Lind, Dean of Cleveland’s Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, at the abortion facility. “May its walls stand strong against the onslaught of shame thrown at it. May it be a beacon of hope for those who need its services.”
Mainline Protestantism is dying. It has largely gotten progressive to the point that “why bother participating in organized religion?” has become a very valid question. They get so liberal that they stop coming. While a few conservatives have broken off into more fundamentalist versions of those churches, most conservatives just defect to evangelicalism or Catholicism.
Many of the old, historical east-coast episcopal churches function as museums now. I wouldn’t concern myself much with the Episcopal Church. In a few decades most of their buildings that don’t receive public funding as landmarks will be crumbling. Those beautiful, dead church buildings are just too expensive to maintain.
