I had some pictures of F'neir up recently, but had to chuck them, something wrong with the way they were up. I'll have some others later.
For we've just returned from a weekend of seeing our little niece Zoe (pic). Lovely, wonderful, beautiful girl! Her dad commented that this was the only phase of life when we can drool and poop in our pants and receive only the highest praise.
Upon return though I find my attention drawn to the church (meaning the church at large) and the changes it may face in the next few years. While there have been a lot of talk over issues like Homosexuality in the Church, I don't really think that is the biggest problem. In reality the mainstream church has been losing church members and priests and ministers for a little while now.
The reason? I'm not really sure, but I do think that the whole process of the church is kind of like what a perfect democracy is like. Built to overhaul itself from time to time. The church has become radically dis-associated from the common people. It seems that the church at some point took the street of moral superiority and infallibility instead of continuing to communicate to the people. A lot of what the "new" non denominational churches are doing is just that, finding new ways of communication. Meanwhile the Church is still trying to cling to the organ. The problem really is that mainline churches have become in some ways far to unwieldy to change as fast as they need to in order to continue reaching the people of their area.
Christianity will not fall, but many of the mainline denominations are in for a crash in a lot of ways I think.
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