HERE'S AN INTERESTING ARTICLE from today's Washington Post: Mariann Budde, Diocese of Washington’s next top bishop, has plans for reviving the Episcopal Church. The article is about her efforts to revive a declining church, and here is the paragraph I found most interesting:

[F]or nearly two centuries it was the faith of America’s elite. Despite never having huge numbers, the American wing of Anglicanism dominated institutions from the Supreme Court to Congress to the local pool club; its churches were built in the grandest, most prominent spot in many a town square.

I rather suspect that the fall of the Church is less a matter of religion than it is a matter of the elites who 'occupy' it.