From Carl Olson, written for a Protestant website, because, you know, he’s one of those unecumenical New Apologists.

When my final Protestant pastor (a good man and dear friend) saw that I was becoming deadly serious about entering the Roman Catholic Church, he made one last, desperate pitch. “Why don’t you found your own church?” he asked. “Wouldn’t that be better?”

Um, no. I certainly didn’t think so. Still don’t. But it is very appealing to many, many people. The result? Some 35,000 or so Christian denominations in the world, a large number of them in North America.

This intriguing article, “The Un-churches,” in the Denver Post, provides a revealing excursion into the world of small groups that are springing up in the Denver area and, more importantly, into the thinking and beliefs of the twenty and thirty year olds who are founding them.

The “lexicon” is very funny.