Winchester Cathedral, you're getting me down

Several religion stories caught my eye today.

First, the head of the Anglican church in Sydney, Australia is challenging the authority of the worldwide Anglican communion, the archbishop of Canterbury. Sydney's Anglican Archbishop, Peter Jensen, is one of many Anglican prelates opposing what they see as creeping liberalism in the Protestant denomination, which is called the Episcopal church in the U.S.

Next, we go to Louisville, Kentucky, where the head of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. has asked conservatives not to hold a meeting to organize opposition to a church study on continued "enforcement of church bans on homosexual ministers and wedding-like ceremonies for gays." Almost every mainstream Protestant denomination is fighting the issue of gay ordination; see this story from St. Paul, Minn. on recent Lutheran developments.

Finally, for comic relief, we have the octogenarian head of a fringe Christian radio station declaring that the "church age" is "dead." He says all true Christians should leave their churches because God no longer speaks through them.