Are independent congregations the future for liberal Jewish America?

Another relevant blog at jewschool. In Is the Economy Killing Off the Rabbinate?, Kol Ra'ash Gadol rejects Marilyn Henry's assertion in the Jerusalem Post—a hawkish rag that's no advocate of Diaspora life—that progressive Judaism in America (period!) might wither on the vine. Contra Henry, he (?) argues convincingly that not only are the Reform, Conservative, and non-denominational liberal seminaries not dying, but that the ongoing emergence of independent post-denominational congregations breathes new life—and new ways of being jewish—into our communal lungs.