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.
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.
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
ReplyDeleteExactly -- 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.
ReplyDeleteHaving 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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