A whole generation has given up on the church. Millenials don't care. Once upon a time, they would have looked to the Church for aid and comfort. No more. Nowadays, people turn to therapists and psychologists of one stripe or another for help along with self-help gurus, professional advisors, and financial advisors. No one really believes a clergy person has the answers they need for the angst in their souls. Gnosticism, agnosticism, atheism, skepticism and naturalism rule the day.

I know whereof I speak. I have a nephew who is an American None. He believes in nothing. No, he is not an angry atheist -- that would take hard work. He is not even an agnostic, because that presumes he knows enough to care about what he does or does not believe. He is not a bad person. He abides by the law. He has never had so much as a speeding ticket. He is not a skeptic about religion. He is not against religion nor is he against Jesus.

It appears that the details of the settlement are confidential - however, someone who saw Moyer at the Courthouse on Wednesday, November 27, the date the case appears to have settled, described Moyer as looking ashen and, along with his lawyers and co-defendants, leaving the courthouse looking deeply upset and far from have the state of "rejoicing" which he reported to his followers on his web site and in personal emails.

While mainline denominational seminarians are under stress facing major changes owing in part to the recession of 2008, seminaries and divinity schools faced declining enrollment and soaring overhead before the financial downturn. Of the 11 Episcopal seminaries in the United States, one has ended its main residential program, another has shut down one of its campuses, and a third has sold a good portion of its campus.