by Christopher Lane
Huffington Post<\/p>\n
In his recent \u201cNewsweek\u201d cover story, \u201cChristianity in Crisis,\u201d Andrew Sullivan gave at least three reasons for the crisis he sees afflicting American Christianity:
Many suburban evangelicals embrace a gospel of prosperity, which teaches that living a Christian life will make you successful and rich. Others defend a rigid biblical literalism, adamantly wishing away a century and a half of scholarship that has clearly shown that the canonized Gospels were written decades after Jesus\u2019 ministry, and are copies of copies of stories told by those with fallible memory. Still others insist that the earth is merely 6,000 years old \u2014 something we now know by the light of reason and science is simply untrue.<\/p>\n