During my career that included being president of two church-related liberal arts colleges, an insightful faculty member at one of the colleges called the relativist philosophy sweeping across campuses as a \u201cdiverse like me\u201d\u009d mind-set. Diversity is great as long as it includes all those who agree with a certain postmodern worldview….<\/p>\n
Where is diversity with fellowship and communion? Where is affirming the image of God in persons who disagree? Where is welcoming with abundant and radical hospitality? Where is the church broad enough to embrace within its communion every living soul? Where is the tiny space we worked so hard to find so that we could remain in TEC?<\/p>\n
That tiny space to stand on principle and belief has become a razor\u2019s edge of hypocrisy, severing a tie that should have remained. That tiny space has been eliminated by a \u201cdiverse like me\u201d\u009d mind-set in a dysfunctional polity. And the Episcopal Church, the original and legitimate Diocese of South Carolina, the Anglican Communion and God\u2019s kingdom on Earth will be the worse for it.<\/p>\n