The Episcopal Church does not lack urgent energy – it just doesn’t have any that unites. It accommodates the several lesser “urgencies” of a couple of groups, who may or may not be in denial about the harm they are doing to the rest of the body. As I’ve written elsewhere, it is a “one generation strategy,” kind of like rent controlled apartments: Nobody cares what happens next, as long as they get theirs now.
I also see an urgency in the revisionists. For three years, Ms Schori was going around talking about “vibrancy” and “all is well.” Now, she is acknowledging there might be a problem but nothing really that grave, “go back to sleep”.
A backlash is coming. The revisionists are aware of this. The pew potatoes are realizing that national church politics do matter locally. The revisionists are working [i]urgently[/i] to get as many facts on the ground before this backlash really finds a voice.
Oops. Just saw that Professor Seitz said pretty much the same thing in the [url=http://new.kendallharmon.net/wp-content/uploads/index.php/t19/article/27546/#405107 ]original thread[/url].
TEC members self centered? Are they “me” oriented? Duh? The baby boomers now control TEC (and the nation). What else would you expect? Statmann