I was actually just looking at the Church Theme Content plugin today (it's free, by the way). Now, I want to build a church theme because half of the headache with building one has already been taken care of. I haven't fully reviewed the code, but it looks like a solid release. I do know that I'll be recommending it to anyone who wants to build a church-type theme.

Other theme authors should take notice of this. This is exactly the type of thing they should be happy about. It will allow them to do the thing that they're good at (designing themes) while leaving the more complex, PHP stuff to the rest of us.

I'm glad someone else is creating a new standard for the WordPress theming community. I was starting to think I'd have to do all the work myself. :)