“The Reformation - 500 years old next year - was about freedom and legitimate institutional accountability”
Looking back, how did that work out? The Catholic Church acknowledged the necessity of the Reformation with the Counter-Reformation, and while it has many problems today, the Catholic Church would be more easily recognized than the Protestant Churches if someone flashed forward 500 years to today. While most Masses are no longer in Latin, the idea of a “married” female homosexual presiding over services would be quite a shock for the Protestant time traveler. Based on the “Canterbury Tales”, I don’t think the homosexual scandal in the Catholic Church would be so shocking.
How did the Reformation work out? Very well, by giving Christians liberty to worship Christ according to their consciences, and not all be forced to belong to a single top-down institution run by an unaccountable and self-protecting bureaucracy.