There's a certain truism that's been adopted by commentators and analyzers of religion in the United States (and more broadly in the West), that liberal Protestant Christianity is in a demographic death spiral, and thus liberal forms of Christianity itself are in danger of winking out of existence. Conservative columnist Ross Douthat, author of "Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics," made waves this past Summer by asking if liberal Christianity could be saved. "...if conservative … [Read more...]