'That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.' Neil Armstrong's words come readily to mind for those who watched (on television) the first 'man on the moon'.  That was 40 years ago.
Two weeks ago, in her opening address to General Convention, the Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori included these words:

'The crisis of this moment has several parts… The overarching connection in all of these crises has to do with the great Western heresy - that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God. It's caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus. That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of all being.'

Two thousand years ago, before 'western civilisation' took shape, the Apostle Paul wrote:

'because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.'

(Romans 10:9-10)

Add to this the pivotal gospel verse of John 3:16: 'For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life' and Bishop Schori is unequivocally denying the heart of the Christian message.
This weekend there are celebrations around the world to mark the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. Every Sunday Christians gather to thank our heavenly Father for sending his son Jesus to 'rescue us from the wrath to come'.

In 40 years time, Bishop Schori will only be remembered for her 'Declaration of Independence' from the Lord of all creation.