Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity

by David Shiflett

It's a trend: in this anything-goes age, ever larger numbers of people are opting for tougher moral standards. Millions are streaming out of churches that preach the Gospel of "If It Feels Good, Do It," and are finding homes in houses of worship that preach a more traditional and more demanding religion. Churches that have ditched Christian doctrine in favor of an unremitting advocacy of the Democratic Party platform, like the Episcopalians and Unitarians, are hemorrhaging members -- while conservative churches like the Southern Baptists are gaining members in record numbers.

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Of course, ever since the Episcopal Church chose an openly gay bishop, the demise of mainline Protestantism has been a foregone conclusion. It is clear now that in a generation or two conservative Christians will be the only Christians left. But never before has an author gone behind the scenes of this great social transformation the way Shiflett has. He reveals why liberal pastors have cast aside tradition and Christian belief in a vain and ultimately fruitless attempt to remake and "modernize" their churches.

Best of all, Shiflett marshals an impressive array of facts to undermine numerous common stereotypes about conservative believers. Easily-led, uneducated yahoos? Hardly: Shiflett shows that conservative Christians are better educated, wealthier, and wiser to the ways of the world than anyone in the media establishment gives them credit for. He even reveals that many of those who are currently flocking to conservative churches aren't fully conservative themselves: some even don't agree with all of their new churches' teachings on conservative hot-button issues like abortion and divorce. Others don't believe that every word of the Bible is literally true.

But Shiflett demonstrates that whether conservative or more left-of-center, the new members of conservative churches have one thing in common: they're tired of being told by their religious leaders that anything goes. They're longing for the traditional Christian message of hope. In Exodus, he renews that hope in the soul of every true Christian.

• One conservative Christian's assessment that "mainstream [liberal] Protestantism in any culture transforming sense is finished in America"

• Why the undemanding God preached in liberal churches was initially popular, but has proved increasingly unsatisfying to a growing number of members and former members of those churches

• How secularism creates a spiritual vacuum that a dynamic faith will eventually fill -- and how, in Europe, that faith increasingly is Islam

• A liberal Episcopalian priest explains the mechanism by which his church neutralizes Scriptural admonitions it finds inconvenient and inconsistent with modern PC sensibilities

• The latest Episcopal church controversies over homosexuality: not the first blow to traditional faith, but the last straw in a thirty-year assault on traditional Christianity

• How the Episcopal Church's sustained attack on traditionalism has sapped the church's energy -- and created multitudes of new Catholics, Orthodox, and evangelicals

• The ordination of gay Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson: how one conservative's characterization of it as "a tragic act of intentional apostasy" is winning adherents inside and outside the Episcopal church

• Liberal Christianity: how it broke its final ties with Biblical authority as long ago as the 1950s

• How all the historically Baptist universities in the United States have been lost to unbiblical liberalism

• Celebrity heretics and their damaging influence: how mainline churches have suffered negative fallout from their blessing of the multiple marriages of stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Rex Harrison

• The eight-point denial of traditional Christian beliefs popularized not by an avowed opponent of Christianity, but by an Episcopal bishop

• The trivialization of solemn rites by mainline churches -- including an Ash Wednesday observed with ashes made of human blood, tax forms, and a draft card

• The Columbine massacre: two very different funeral messages from two pastors on each side of the liberal/conservative divide

• "We are winning the abortion issue": one conservative Christian leader's confident assessment of today's political situation

• Same-sex marriage: how this issue has become a flashpoint and key difference between liberal and conservative churches in America

• Why some refugees from the Episcopal church and other centers of Christian apostasy have found a home in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches

• How some refugees from mainline churches have found in Orthodoxy "a church that can never apostatize"

• How the Catholic Church is moving in a conservative direction today after suffering for a generation the negative effects of a wave of liberalism

• The incalculable damage wrought by a homosexual cabal that controlled Catholic seminaries in the 1980s

• A Southern Baptist leader who agrees with -- and energetically preaches -- the Catholic Church's traditional teaching on abortion and contraception

• Why the Latin Mass, despite its near-invisibility after the Second Vatican Council, is attracting huge numbers of young Catholics

• Why religious denominations have proved no different from political groups: once one becomes liberal, it stays liberal

• Catholic and Protestant leaders who estimate that only ten percent of those who identify themselves as Christians are really serious about their faith -- and why this is not a cause for despair

• Watergate-conspirator-turned-prison-evangelist Charles Colson's direct and straightforward diagnosis of why the mainline churches are losing members

• Why liberal Christians' attempt to affect a basic redefinition of marriage is doomed to failure

• The notorious former abortionist who was baptized a Catholic -- with a leading pro-life activist as his sponsor