James R. Wood, asking in Comment “Can the Church Still Speak?":

Can the Church still speak? Perhaps the better question in our modern world is: Even if it did, would we listen?

It is hard to hear the muffled voice of a divided Church that has been imagined into the margins of opinion and otherworldly concerns. But Christians should reconsider the Church as the given bride of Christ who is also the mother of believers. And we should position ourselves first and foremost to listen to that Church wherever we are. And we should continually pray that ecclesiastical leaders will continue to find ways to make the Church’s voice more audible to the world and that the Spirit would go out and give those with ears the ability to hear.