Not Exactly an Original Observation

Is Political Activism Responsible for the Decline of the Episcopal Church?

So what explains this state of affairs? Perhaps it’s something akin to Tom Wolfe’s criticism of contemporary art in his book "The Painted Word," wherein he argued that leading artists were not making art for the public, but for art critics. The Episcopal Church, and indeed most of the mainline Protestant denominations, have traded the wants and needs of their parishioners for alignment with the social and political views of what passes in this country for the intelligentsia.