PUTTY, BRASS, 'N PAINT

Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about England which went something like:

If England was what England seems,
‘n not the England of our dreams…
But only putty, brass, ‘n paint,
‘ow quick we’d drop ‘er,
But we ain’t.

I paraphrased these lines some years ago to:

If the Episcopal Church was what the Episcopal Church seems,
‘n not the Church of our dreams…
Etc., etc….

Now, having watched and read and thought about what is going on in the leadership of the ECUSA and the Diocese of Michigan, I am thinking that perhaps, just perhaps, the ECUSA is really NOT the Church of my dreams. Perhaps the leadership is really “…only putty, brass, ‘n paint.”

Not a happy thought.