[AnAmericanMother]

I am reminded of an early blog comment some time back in 2004, I believe, when a man posted on some site the happy news that he was "outta here" and on to a much better place. He could finally cease all of this silly, and useless fighting over an unworthy trivial corrupt Episcopal church, because he had crossed the Tiber and joined the Roman Catholic church.

He had not learned a crucial lesson, one that I suspect that God wants us all to learn.

And would that be Matthew 10:14, Mark 6:11, or maybe Luke 9:5?

The author is just sore that the orthodox are out-numbered, out-generaled, gave up the field, and are still not willing to organize and fight.

[sionnsar]

See comment #1. I received this back-channel -- and I'll ping him.

[Carolina]

My questions for those remaining in TEC are: If you are in a conservative parish, how old is your rector and how long before he retires?

When he does retire, what are the chances that you'll get a conservative rector?

Is your bishop a revisionist? Because if s/he is, your chances of getting an orthodox priest are greatly reduced. S/he plays a big role in rector hiring. Your deployment officer reserves the right to yank resumes of candidates that s/he deems unfit for the diocese. And you'll never know whose resumes were pulled. Furthermore, the bishop can say no on a candidate and you don't have a say.

Serving on a rector search post-Vickie Gene hastened my departure from then-ECUSA, now-TEC. What an eye opener!