Delegates at the denomination’s convention voted overwhelmingly to finalize the ousters of one of its largest churches, Saddleback, and a small church in Kentucky, despite impassioned appeals from their leaders.
Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.
That “pattern” has been around for at least fifty years. This is merely a continuation of it.
Zooming out reveals the pattern to be a spiral.