I have only had time to read the executive summary. The table points mostly to the convert vs ethnic divide, but this is not news to anyone including the ethnic folks. Like Michael, the recommendations around “ecumenical” and what is really just activist/political involvement (such as the explicit mention of the immigration issue) strikes me as at the very least naive, and probably an expression of the secular and political preferences of the authors. The authors are infatuated with “education” when “spiritual formation” is the better paradigm and the one that is reality operative in the effects they are seeing. Also, perhaps the authors address this in the full report but the axiom “correlation is not causation” holds – they don’t connect the dots in any serious sense.
All that being said, the report strikes me as something worth pondering about by everyone in “leadership” (lay, clergy, bishops, etc.)…
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