For the past four years, a former Episcopal priest, now affiliated with the Anglican Catholic Church, has carried on a friendly internet "dialogue" with one of the current candidates for Presiding Bishop. Here is a recent exchange passed along to VIRTUEONLINE.

ACC priest shares an article about a new Arabic Baptist Church replacing a Southern Baptist church.

One church's sunset means a new day for another. You can read the full story here: http://tinyurl.com/nlmtl9y

PBC Yup. It's happening to the Southern Baptists, too. The end of Christendom in the U.S. is coming.

ACC: By Christendom, I am assuming, as we have discussed in the past, the institution that has wallowed in elitism, privilege, status, and which has revised its beliefs, traditions, and practices particularly eliminating the concept of "sin," so as to maintain little contradiction with the societal norms at present. An institution that has changed its message but not its facade of buildings with steeples and clergy in funny clothing living on endowments left by previous generations. An institution which has to compete with the instant gratification available via iPhones, internet, and hooking up. So the church is dying and vanishing, but a remnant will hopefully always remain.

And a remnant may indeed flourish...Jesus spoke Aramaic and so it is meet and right to see an Arabic church made up of immigrants/refugees rising where old time religion is perishing. A resurrection event...

However, the most important end coming is not the church, but America, which is being transformed into a socialist gulag that is already bankrupt to the tune of 80 trillion dollars, spent on failed social programs and unwise military expeditions and which only survives by printing money and controlling and manipulating "free" markets. Soon cash money will be outlawed so that the government can keep track of each person's assets and take whatever it needs, whenever it wants.

Anarchy, crime, oppression, surveillance. These were the conditions when Jesus was born in Bethlehem and these conditions have reappeared acutely in America.

A remnant of Christians will remain. But their lot may be persecution at the hands of the liberal fascists - some of whom actually claim to be Christians, too.

God will keep watch over His own.

PBC I hear you.

ACC: Thanks. I believe we agree that the church as it has existed is dying, but hopefully will be resurrected in a form that is closer to what our Lord intends.

The question remains: Will the "journey" of the Episcopal Church into "left" field with its extreme revisionism of tradition, theology, sexuality, economics, social justice, and its 50 million dollar legal blitzkrieg against those who from conscience sought to leave TEC, but not the tradition, with the properties they built and own, result in a new Episcopal church that is more authentically the Body on Christ on earth?

PBC: Right question.

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