Our friend Diana Butler Bass has an interview in Newsweek about evidence she sees that America’s “Frozen Chosen” mainline Protestant churches are undergoing something of a thaw.
We have Methodists who engage in Celtic spirituality, Episcopalians who walk the labyrinth and Presbyterians who do reiki. You find Protestant churches engaging in the Benedictine rule or reading the ancient Christian fathers or practicing contemplative prayer. They’re mixing elements of contemporary culture with ancient spiritual practices.
