romstamp-wmaster2.jpg

“… ever since the rise of the Moral Majority, American evangelicals have arguably been the most politically powerful religious group in the country. But perhaps the most telling revelation of the Orthodox conversion trend is that this political power has not translated into a sense of spiritual power–or belonging …

The New Republic looks at the ”growing number of Southern Baptists and Presbyterians and Assemblies of God members [who] have left the evangelical fold, turning to a religion that is not only not American, but not even Western.”

(the pic?  a Ukrainian postage stamp)