Brad East, of Abilene Christian University, has a knack for observation and summary.  Case in point: today’s blog post titled “A Loosening.”  The premise?

It seems to me there has been, in the past twenty years, what I’m going to call a “loosening” in low-church American Protestant contexts. And the phenomenon appears to be widespread, not limited regionally or denominationally.

He then goes on to write about eight particular areas of church life there things have “loosened.”  But he also acknowledges that this “loosening” has also happened simultaneously for multiple generations in a way that is quite striking (and potentially alarming).  It’s a good read, one that should leave us asking some good questions.