Too bad they're absquatulating to the provinces, but that's what happens when an ecclesial community doesn't believe in anything more substantial than a vague DIY "spirituality". Their committment to social justice is a wonderful thing, but people need more.
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Don't think I'd blame it on theology, but rather on the demographic and economic changes that have sent so many other center city congregations out to the suburbs -- or even out of existance.
In our own church, consider the decimation of July 2005.
Can't blame either for this one. The Unitarian denomination is a tiny group of muddle-headed twits, but they're almost always well-heeled enough to drive twenty miles for one of the feel-good masquerades they call worship. There just aren't enough of them to support their former state. Not much more than 200,000 of them in the whole country.
Exactly -- there aren't enough of them in Toledo to support that humongous palace at Collingwood and Bancroft, well-heeled though they may or may not be. At least they didn't just close up their historic central-city house of worship and leave it to deteriorate... but I digress.
Having been sold to an independent African-American Pentecostal organization, that building is about to do a complete 180.
Isn't that demographics?
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