ECUSA – POLITICS AND PRAYER

It used to be said, a ‘lifetime’ ago, that the Episcopal Church was the Republican Party at prayer.
The ‘used to be said’ needs revision now, a ‘lifetime’ later.

Now, with the leadership of the ECUSA calling for a variety of sexual orientation and gender ‘reforms’; for reformation of US foreign policy directions; for ‘modernization’ of theological concepts; for a redefinition of rational approach to international law and international relations; for new directions in almost whatever-you-name-it, it should now be said that the ECUSA is really the democratic party at prayer.

The leadership of ECUSA appears to be way ‘ahead’ of the ECUSA ‘followers’.

What can I say?

That which was taken as given for hundreds of years, hundreds and hundreds, is now held up, or down, as wrong-headed, ignorant, prejudiced, biased.

Doctrines which were matters of faith are now labeled as superstition.

The denomination is declining in numbers, much as is the stock of GM and Ford.

Inane resolutions are passed by national church leadership and diocesan leadership which further alienate longtime members.

It has been said elsewhere by others: when the unwise and undefendable becomes the norm, the acceptable, that which was the norm will become the undefendable.
The two will not exist together.

And there will be consequences.

There was wisdom in the world before the revisions of these days.

Let our lessons be learned with the least cost possible.