So, you were wondering why church attendance is down? (Updated by FWIW’s Religion Correspondent and Episcopal Apostate)

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Where are these people’s caretakers?

UPDATE from New Mexico:

The pathetic state of the Episcopal Church today

From NPR  (where else?)

Bishop Rob Hirschfeld [image below] was one of several community and faith leaders gathered in Concord, N.H., for a vigil for Renee Macklin Good just days after she was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis.

“I’ve asked [clergy] to get their affairs in order to make sure they have their wills written,” he said, “because it may be that now is no longer the time for statements, but for us with our bodies to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.”

Those of a certain age may remember a far different Episcopal Church, which came to being as an offshoot of the Church of England. When this blogger was a boy the Episcopal Church was the society church. The church of presidents and captains of industry. The church to which half the signers of the Declaration of Independence belonged. The church once described by a wit as “the Republican party at prayer.” [And by Mark Twain as “rich Catholics” — ED]

Those days are long gone. The Episcopal Church over the last 50 years has mutated into a shallow political institution that embraces every left-wing cause that sprouts up, particularly those that have found favor with the media and well-placed members of the radical left. It should therefore come as no surprise the church’s membership has dropped every one of those last fifty years and continues to drop.

NPR, however, is taken in by dolts like the Right Reverend Hirschfeld, who personifies the contemporary Episcopalian when, with exquisite self-importance, urges on his colleagues the proposperous suggestion they”write their wills,” in the expectation of their coming martyrdom. It’s not at all a stretch to imagine those idiots seeing themselves as 21st century equivalents of the early Christian martyrs. Regardless their motives though, they exemplify the elitist institution claiming to be church, at which fewer than one percent of American church goers belong.