And in non-Episcopal news …

Sunday, August 2, 2009
Posted by tmatt

Gosh, did everybody see that wave of coverage of the United Methodist Church’s recent General Conference, the one in which evangelicals won two very important victories — moving in precisely the opposite direction as the course taken by the Episcopal Church?

No, I didn’t see that wave of coverage either, primarily since there wasn’t one.

Which is strange, if you think about it.

After all, there are about 2 million Episcopalians, depending on who is doing the counting. The membership statistics for the United Methodist Church have been sliding, as well, but the denomination still has nearly 8 million members in the United States and another 3.5 million (and rising fast) in Africa.

Do the math. The 2 million Episcopalians received X million gallons of printer’s ink worth of coverage recently as the denomination’s liberal establishment won a series of strategic victories on several doctrinal fronts linked to sex and marriage. Meanwhile, the 8 million or so United Methodists received how much coverage as the conservatives won two big victories on similar issues? Click here and here for a quick comparison, at the time this post was written. the rest