I've lately been promoting a book I wrote on the plight of the mainline Christian denominations, featuring the Episcopal Church as Exhibit A in the Trainwreck Chronicles.

An interviewer asked me: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of these churches? I replied: I'm too old to be pessimistic. A blog commenter ventured that that was kinda contradictory, in that "old" folks are usually, and rightly, more pessimistic than the young.

Well, I'm not really all ...

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