red rover, red rover, let jesus come over

So the president of the Evangelical Theological Society has resigned in order to (re)join the Catholic church.

This has sent Christendom (or, you know, the evangelical community in the US -- I doubt a lot of the rest of the theological world cares much, but I really wanted to use the word "Christendom") into a tizzy. One professor at a seminary called it "a sad day for all the sons and daughters of the Protestant Reformation". But the reason I bring it up is that the WaPo article linked above includes the following paragraph:

Beckwith is not the first, or even the most prominent, evangelical to switch to Catholicism in recent years. Others include Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), theologian Scott Hahn and the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the journal First Things. On the other side of the equation, the Catholic Church has been losing droves of ordinary worshipers to the Pentecostal form of evangelicalism, particularly in Latin America.

Makes a decent point, I think, which is that there's mobility in both directions; but what I especially like about this graf is the word "equation". Not "chasm" or "schism" or even "divide" or "aisle" -- equation, y'all. That's my clever staff writer. That's my clever editor.