text: An excellent review, thank you.
  
  <<That is a problem particularly, as one segment of the book details, in a church whose members lag well behind their Protestant counterparts in the giving department.>>
  
  Not that the hierarchs give a fig, but I left the church because I couldn't reconcile making financial contributions to an organization that funnels millions into politics via mean-spirited culture war crusades and that supported a demagogue who represents the antithesis of the gospel.
  
  Trump is threatening to repeal the Johnson Amendment. Just wait until the church's reputation as a religious arm of the GOP is formalized. Drip drip drip.