Not doing his homework, Bishop Saenz stopped dialoguing and started litigating. I have seen bishops make this mistake before when dealing with large congregations. They act like it’s the mid-twentieth century, when Protestant denominations were strong and episcopal authority was absolute, rather than recognizing the postdenominational world of the twenty-first century.

Bracing words from Dale Coulter, whose newsletter is, at the moment, the very best source for charting “the postdenominational world of the twenty-first century," not least its Pentecostal-charismatic/multiracial/informal-networking character.