I Don’t Really Like Baseball

… but I love Tony’s analogy of the “strike zone” for Christian orthodoxy.

I’d say he’s hit this one out of the ballpark. Touch ‘em all, Tony Jones!

Read it all the way to the end. It’s a fantastic finish.

OK I can’t wait for you to click, I’m going to pitch it to you myself:

My best argument that the “strike zone” of orthodoxy will hold is the 2,000 year history of the church. From the Early Church through the Conciliar Age, from the Dark Ages, through the Middle Ages, the Scholastics, the Reformation, the Modern Era, and until now, the worldwide community of faith has adjusted the strike zone, but also guarded it. Now, wrested from the hands of ecclesial elites and placed in the hands of bloggers and “laypersons,” the same thing will happen: we will all work out our orthodoxy together.

We together, indeed, know more than our pastors.

OK now go read the whole thing.