end of the age?

I read this article on the SOJO blog this am and thought I would share it. The blog is a response to a Newsweek article about the end of American Christianity that appeared over Easter. Its interesting how the powerful tell the story of their loss of power as a universal sign of demise without acknowledging that something else is emerging to replace them. White, wealthy evangelicalism is declining. But a new evangelicalism is emerging, among non-english speakers and amond urbanites. It is also emerging in Gen X and Millenials, who have not been granted authority and credibility by our baby boomer predecessors yet. So as a new way emerges the old way continues to define Christianity by its own terms. And by its own terms, Christianity is dying.
But a new minority Christianity is emerging too. They just refuse to acknowledge it. This is what happens during these great cultural upheavals. There is a sifting out of authorities and a realignment of values and a decline of majoritarian hegemony in favor of looser, more fluid minority cultures that emerge to establish new ways of living. and enacting faith. When the minority opinion becomes truth, the system has moved.
Again, the powerful tell the story of their own demise as if it is the end of the world. Instead, it is part of the cyclical ebb and flow of life. Dying and rising is something Christians should be familiar with. It is our one theological claim that we ascribe to the GOD who created the heavens and the earth. GOD revealed to us in the death and resurrection of Jesus an organic reality that has vast implications on how we understand human community, nations, and struggles for power and control. The church will die. And it will rise anew. How long will the process take before what was will no longer be and what will be will be?