This week concludes our three-part BLOGFORCE challenge. The first challenge was, \u201cWhy the Church?\u201d\u009d The second was, \u201cWhy Anglicanism?\u201d\u009d This week, we asked, \u201cWhy the Episcopal Church?…\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Holli Powell blogs, \u201cWhy Why Why?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s exactly why the Episcopal Church, at least for this silly, frustrated soul. Because I care enough to keep slogging through this mess with these folks who all care just as much as I do, if not more, rather than separating from everyone and writing my own church creed with a cup of coffee in my hand in my back yard. Because all these arguments and disagreements mean that we are a family, bound together by the blood lines of liturgy and faith and reason, and even if you desperately want to run away from your family sometimes, you don\u2019t get to. Because this institution has survived through hundreds of years in order to be just the thing I needed to remind me that I was a child of God, in order to remind me that everyone else is too. And it will survive hundreds of years more, God willing, in spite of ourselves, to be that for other Grumpy McFussypants just like me.<\/p>\n