To this author, to \u201cgo all the way\u201d\u009d means to swim upstream against societal currents and to cleave to a life of prayer and Bible study. Evangelical Christians, she writes, are paying the greatest cost\u201d\u201cgiving themselves over completely to Christianity and paying a personal price.<\/p>\n
The implication is that progressive Christian churches are practicing Christianity Lite, a version that demands little of us spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually. It\u2019s ironic that, on the one hand, the author points out how the Episcopal Church and other progressive churches are declining in number, and on the other, that we have not paid a price for our Christian commitments.<\/p>\n
I have never found Christianity more demanding of me than in the Episcopal Church. And it\u2019s precisely because the Episcopal Church does not embrace many absolutist statements, but rather requires me and other followers of Jesus to pray, worship, study, and serve to figure out what the heck God requires of us in a given moment.<\/p>\n