The Swedish theologian Krister Stendhal encouraged people to "leave room for holy envy" (to allow oneself to admire elements in other religions) and hoo boy was I positively green while reading this wonderful piece by
@mckaycoppins https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-most-american-religion/617263/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlantic+%28The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%29

As someone who thinks a LOT about the future of Judaism, I found myself wondering with practically each successive paragraph what lessons the LDS Church might have for ensuring the continued vibrancy and commitment of American Judaism.

We may be 15x older as a religion but the last 200 years of American Judaism is a very mixed bag. On the one hand, Jews are more prosperous and accepted than anyone might have imagined in 1820. On the other, vast swaths of our faith have been (irredeemably?) diluted.

The Mormonism that McKay describes feels deeply familiar to anyone acquainted with Modern Orthodox or the most committed Conservative Jews. It demands something of its adherents as it seeks to improve the world. But together, those subsets represent AT MOST 20% of American Jews.

A question not (yet) relevant to McKay, but critical for the next century of American Judaism: Once a religion has been stripped of its hard parts, boiled down to a "rotary club," can it be revived? It certainly cannot endure.