That’s a softer title than the author used in a Christian Science Monitor opinion piece: “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” I’m not sure how seriously to take the argument: the author is a popular blogger but not a scholar. There’s no data used or referenced in the article. The recent ARIS results (see my post from two days ago) tells a similar story using data to document a secular trend affecting all religions rather by citing a litany of alleged Evangelical faults and failures.

Unsurprisingly, the article received considerable attention from blogs.

• SmartChristian thinks the article “provides significant points of reflection, truth, and points of discussion” and thinks the collapse “is already happening.”
• Adventures in Mormonism thinks the LDS Church has sidestepped these problems, while noting a weakness that bloggers often display in such discussions: “My suspicion is that he is (consciously or not) overstating his case in order to conform with his own frustrations and expectations, something not unknown here in the Bloggernacle.”
• 16 Small Stones calls the predicted collapse “an LDS opportunity.”
• Mormon Metaphysics cautiously picks up on a theme I didn’t catch in the article: “The bigger issue is the ‘content free religion’ aspects some see in Evangelicalism. I’m not sure how fair those criticisms are.”