In case Episcopal conservatives want to know what they're in for, a commenter refers me to this interview with the next Presiding Bishop:
What about those who seem bent and determined to leave or to wound the body if they dont get their own way?
I think they need to be challenged, more so than they have been. I see signs of hope in the House of Bishops, an unwillingness to continue to put up with bad behavior. We havent seen any action yet, but I think it is coming.
Do you have any sense of what that action might be? Would a verbal rebuke be enough?
It wont be enough in some cases, I am sure. But I have the sense that there is some desire to hold each other accountable for actions that are not canonical, for actions that have the appearance of being downright schismatic.
Like a separate church ... not even doing Eucharist together: I find that the most painful part.
Absolutely.