the failure of liberal christianity

the la times ran a nice op-ed last week on the disintegration of the american liberal church--that is, the people who deny the divinity of Christ, ignore biblical directives on homosexuality, and take feminism to the absurd. at one conference, "participants 'reimagined' God as 'Our Maker Sophia' and held a feminist-inspired 'milk and honey' ritual designed to replace traditional bread-and-wine Communion."

while you might be sympathetic to some or all of these causes, consider that the traditional theology of the Church is focused on the divinity of Christ... A celebration of women (or men!) that obscures the sacrament of God has no place in a service of worship: we kneel at the foot of the Cross, sprinkled with Christ's blood; we don't coo in Sophia's arm, milking at her teet.

{also note when you're reading the article, the presbyterian church USA referred to in the oped is entirely different from the "presbyterian church in america (PCA)", which unabashedly affirms the Word of God as Truth, and Jesus Christ as Savior.}

a representative quotation:

It is not entirely coincidental that at about the same time that Episcopalians, at their general convention in Columbus, Ohio, were thumbing their noses at a directive from the worldwide Anglican Communion that they "repent" of confirming the openly gay Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire three years ago, the Presbyterian Church USA, at its general assembly in Birmingham, Ala., was turning itself into the laughingstock of the blogosphere by tacitly approving alternative designations for the supposedly sexist Christian Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Among the suggested names were "Mother, Child and Womb" and "Rock, Redeemer and Friend." Moved by the spirit of the Presbyterian revisionists, Beliefnet blogger Rod Dreher held a "Name That Trinity" contest. Entries included "Rock, Scissors and Paper" and "Larry, Curly and Moe."