Had never before read this 2009 essay by Michael Spencer predicting “the coming evangelical collapse."

What’s interesting about all such prophecies is the way that the predictive/descriptive and the normative/axiological get entwined. Best to disentangle them. E.g., evangelicalism could become a horror show and simultaneously popular; or apolitical and decline; or orthodox and stagnate; or heretical and entertainment-focused and become the largest religious blog in the nation. Quality and quantity are not the same thing; fidelity and success do not go hand in hand (and the same is true for unfaithfulness and failure).

Notes for a future essay…