"That is a very charitable way of phrasing the status of that church."
In my experience with them, Episcopalians seem unpretentious, that's all. Not like the Catholic church.
Interesting choice of words. And also interesting that you extend your own personal experience to somehow express something universal about two very large religious organizations sharing one signal characteristic: they both have local parishes displaying the widest possible variety of interpersonal relations.
I expect that a cathedral church would always tend to show rather high-flown (one could say 'pretentious') characteristics, while the local suburban and rural parishes would be far friendlier and companionable.
Those last two synonyms for 'unpretentious' were what you had in mind, yes?
In many respects you're correct ... but that also depends on the particular person/parish, and also the topic in question. The issues in the Episcopal Church are being driven by people whose agendas are not noticeably different from the secular leftist political agenda. Those folks, it must be said, are extremely pretentious when it comes to their pet political projects.